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I'm at the point where I'm about ready to remove the rear springs (with overload leafs) on my 1 ton. I'm currently digging the dirt and grease off and am looking for how to remove the springs from the brackets on the frame but haven't found anything obvious so far. I've found a couple of small bolts and nuts but they don't seem to be what's holding it all together. My questions are; what am I missing and how do I get the springs off? Thanks in advance.

Remove the small nuts.
With a punch drive the small bolts out.
Support the truck and axle best you can to remove all tension from springs.
Use a slide hammer in the grease fitting holes in the ends of the spring pins to yank them out.
Alternately use a big punch or steel bar and drive the pins out, this can be done from either side, even from inside the frame going out.

Grigg

Grigg,
Thanks; I knew it was something pretty simple that I was missing but just was up against a wall trying to figure it out. I'll give it a try this weekend. Due to economic conditions I've done virtually nothing on ol' Frank for over a year but am finally getting things rolling again.

Make sure you give me a holler next time you get out this way.

I have a piece cut from a gear shift lever that is about 18 inches long. I use it as a punch to drive the pins out when removing rear springs. It is long enough I can both hold it and avoid banging my hands up real bad in the process.

I use an old king pin from a 1/2 ton truck to use as a punch to hammer out the rear spring pins thru the holes that are on the inside of the frame.