Fld120 cab mounts replacement and recommended jacking points?

I'm going to replace the front cab mounts on my Freightliner FLD 120.

As I'm looking at this I see that the channel under the floor does not line up with the frame rail, so I'm curious what jacking point you use to support the cab or what your procedure is to change them.

 

I see what you're saying because if you jacked it up with the jack on top of the fuel tank bracket it would be out far enough to catch that frame on the bottom of the cab.

I'll have to check that whole situation out again tomorrow.

 

Yeah I got the originals, same as the rear suspension bushings, original equipment. Maybe next trip I'll do the ATRO.

That's a good idea to use anti seize.

 

I'm going to change both of them at the same time. It looks like I'll have to take that heat shield off to put the jack on the passenger side.

I'd have to look at a newer truck to see what the difference is from the 95 to the 02 and later trucks on the back end of the sleeper. I don't have time to seriously do it now, but I've wondered how I could change over to those pivot type bushings on the front of the newer trucks. I would imagine that would be a better system because the cab is completely free to ride up and down on air.

All of the FLD sleeper trucks ride extremely well. I'm not sure if I drove any of the newer sleeper trucks from 02 and up to really be able to compare. But I did drive a Columbia for a while that was set up with that pivot type bushing in front. I was shocked how well that it rode, because it was a single axle day cab. That cab was so smooth, that if you turned your head and looked at the exhaust pipe it looked like the exhaust pipe was going up and down rather than the cab going up and down.

I'll have to look into that at another time, but I like the idea of those bushings.