I am in the process of fitting up my the front suspension on my 1994 pickup SAS and have run into afew snags. I purchsed the basic trailgear kit which comes with the front hanger, shackles, frame tubes, jigs and bushings/bolts. My plan is to build a hybrid pack using a set of 84-88 rear springs with some added leaves from a 89-95 rear pack. My issue is that the front spring eye has a pressed in sleeved bushing with a 14mm hole. The trailgear spring hanger bolts are all 18mm with matching bushings but their inner diameter is too small once the factory sleeved bushing is removed. What are people using for the front spring eye bushing? The bushings for the rear spring eye fit perfectly so there is no issue there. There must be 100's of people who have the trailgear front hanger with ruf combination yet I cannot find any concrete information about what the solution is. Thanks in advance

 

What did you find out? It’s the same issue I’m having. When I started to research what people have done I thought I’d find the answer easily expecting many people had run into the same problem. No dice

anyone?

 

there are large and small bushings and long small bushings. aftermarket springs and factory springs dont have the same eyelet sizes for all positions. the front eyes of the rear stock springs use a larger bushing od and a metal sleeve on 84-88. marlin and others sell the 39.5 mm od large bushing with 19 mm id for 18 mm bolt.

 

I definitely gotta remember this when I start my sas build.