This one's on my 94 F-150 pickup. The bracket for the strut arm broke out around the hole that the arm attaches to.

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Here are a few more that you can link to. I'm especially concerned about the rivets. Getting them out is not the problem. What to replace them with is the concern. I'm thinking grade 8 bolts and self locking nuts with the crimps.

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Have you checked with Ford to see if it is a "serviceable" part? In other words, can you get it? If not, it's off to the wrecking yard. If it is available from Ford, it will likely come with the bolts, most rivit on parts do. If is is not, then cut the rivits at the wrecking yard and bolt it on. The thing you want to be sure of is that the bolts big enough to fit TIGHT in the hole. It is common to have to drill out the hole to the next size to accomplish this.

I wasn't able to check with Ford, since it broke at 7:30 p.m. on a Saturday night while I was on my way home from a car show. Of all the Ford pickups I've owned over the years, I had never seen one break like this, and never saw this problem when I used to work at a Ford dealer.

Much to my surprise though, most of the salvage yards around here were open today. I found one and had them cut the frame out around it, since the first place I went to ended up gouging the heck out of the bracket when they tried to burn the rivets out with a torch. I took the section of frame home with the bracket still attached and I ground the heads off the rivets with a die grinder and punched them out. I borrowed a couple of bolts from the transmission crossmember because those have the flanges on the nuts and bolt heads. (I stuck a couple of grade eights in the crossmember for now, and will pick up a couple from the the salvage yard next time I'm out that way). The question about the replacement fasteners was answered when I was rumaging through the salvage yards this morning. Mine's a 94 and has rivets. 95 and 96 models use bolts. 97 is the new body style and no longer uses this type of suspension. It's back on the road now, much obliged!!