49x 47x WESTERN STAR SPRING BUSHING BIG PROBLEMS I AM REALLY FRUSTRATED 

Thank you for posting Justin I appreciate you.

the hot dog down a highway had me rolling 🤣 😂 classic sturgill glad to see him back

Yes! some shop videos! 🙌🏻🙏🏻

Justin Sturgill Trucking.. Nice to see you back at the videos. Why would they make something like that with that stupid bushing on the pin and then the bracket? That holds too much weight for a stupid design like that.

Was an owner operator for quite a few years there's a reason why I only had paccar product since Freightliner took over Western Star star has been going downhill plain and simple

You should be working for westernstar designing shit for those clowns who are making way to much money to engineer garbage your trucks are all pretty new you shouldn't be dealing with nonsense justin thanks for posting

Horton used to make some real good spring pin bushings and everything and they had like roller bearings in them you might check into them

I buy a lot of stuff off of Brighton spring down in Fairfield and they get that aftermarket stuff and it's real good stuff I mean you know just throwing it out there

Talk to a spring co. they might have a fix on the shelf. They can and will custom make anything you want Hot Dog. ;)

I've got Kenworth dump trucks and I've had you weld them tack weld them in there to keep them from sliding back and forth

Have you checked out the tiger tool puller so you can do the pin bushings without removing the spring? Hopefully you are able to fix the issue and it won’t matter. but that will save a lot of time over pulling the spring to replace the bushings.

I would have my own pins made now to exact specs of the peterbilt ones to also..and have thrm drilled all the way to accept grease too now

For bolts you should try a company called CHOICE.

Castrol pyroplex blue is by far the best grease. I don't know what flea market you got that other stuff from. Never heard of that stuff, and I've been at it for over 30 years

If you spec heavier axles do you have to pay more in tags for the truck?

That bushing looks like an after thought, instead of redesigning the total assembly they just manufactured that bushing, like putting a bandaid on a gaping wound !!!

Rule of thumb is you want as few moving parts as possible. This is the reason why people don’t buy vehicles with turbo’s.

Damn bruh where you been!

I would retap those holes to accept ase bolts too and use shoulder bolts to fix that now too also...those trucks suck duck too.thsts why I buy older western stars now too...

Justin, you have a legitimate complaint. That spring setup is completely over-engineered. This is simply the engineers not understanding real world use. My thought is the bushing you use to take up the gap is meant to be sacrificial. But if it’s not made of bronze it’s worthless. We use Premalube from certified labs for our grease and it’s far superior than any grease we have used in the past..I’ll never go back to any other grease after using their product. I’d be happy to send you a cartridge for your grease gun if you want to try it. Good luck with the dilemma..I like your idea of testing your own idea, sometimes you have no other option.

Talk with someone from your local spring shop.

The whole point of buying new is to not have issues. Thanks Justin, because of this I’ll just go used and instead of payments, let it nickel and dime me instead of enriching fat cat corporations.

Why not go with Autocar???

Well I'm definitely not buying there shit 👁️👀

That is just a bad design.

Their all junk from the factory no matter what the brand is