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Re: Siezed rear leaf shackle pivot pin!!! Help
I have a 50....3100, and they do thread into the spring. They are tapered on the ends, and hollow with an alemite on one end.
The threads in the spring is just a bushing (sleeve with threads on the inside), new shackles come with replacement bushings, and you press the old ones out with the new ones. (Not saying you need new shackles, just that the bushing/threads are made so they can be removed/replaced)
May be easier to press the bushing & pin out together, then to free the pin. Unless it's seized to both sides of the shackle. Then I guess I would have to get more aggressive with it until it either came loose or broke. Maybe easier to cut the pin itself, should be space to get a reciprocating saw blade between the shackle mount & plate...
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