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Old 06-08-2017, 01:18 PM   #17
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Re: 57 Short Box 235 5sp C4

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Not sure what your R&P looks like, mine has 2 rivet kind of fastners that held the steel tube to the cast aluminum about in the middle. I undid the lines and teased out the rivets with a hammer and chisel, screw driver, vice grips and what ever was handy at the time. They screw in with very coarse thread, about a quarter turn and the come out. Then I turned the steel tube with a pipe wrench to where I thought it would clear, redrilled the holes in the aluminum side and hammered the rivet screw deals back in. Then I massaged the original lines to where they would hook back up.
thanks, mine looks about the same, ill pick one up and give it a try.
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