Shock links

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The shock links shown in the photo's appear to use similar ball ends to other late war trucks such as GMC CCKW and Studebaker US6. I have a good quantity of NOS links for the Stude and have been using the ball ends for Dodge WC among others.

There is no need to cut and shut if the rod and eye ends are ok, just press the ball ends out and press in new or serviceable ones robbed out of the Stude links or what have you. This also holds true if you have a link with the ends facing the wrong way, just press one out and put it in the other way round.

Within the last two weeks I supplied a couple of Stude links to a friend for use on his '48 Ford pick-up.

You will find that the pin on the ball has a taper on it and can be a bit difficult to dismantle from the attach point. I find that after loosening or removing the nut, if you can hold a sledge hammer or heavy steel object against one side of the attach lug and hit the side opposite with a hammer (NOT the pin) after a few whacks they will usually separate.

David