My 2k dakota has been riding really rough lately even though ive tried 3 diff shocks. I noticed finally that the bolts are somehow wearing thin and with bolt firmly tightened the shock can go up and down when bolted down. Kinda sounds like bed gets licked and slammed down now on bumps. I tried wrapping tape around the bolts to make up the difference to see and it riders better but looks stupid to me. Any cheap way to get 4 new bolts for the back? One site I looked at was showing 12.00 per bolt which is stupid.

 

Hardware store like ace hardware one of the bigger stores carry a big supply of bolts and nuts or a higher end auto parts store

 

I noticed how part of the bolt is thick so shock won't move around and rest is thin. Would they have that type there at a parts store? I'm still learning how to do all this. I'm even thinking about replacing my leaf spring bushings just to try and improve ride, the old bushings are hard as a freaking rock.

 

All you can do is look look and look around at places till you find the correct size.

Were I used to live we had an auto supply called Hub auto they had a big selection of different bolts and nuts.

Remember to get the correct grade like grade 8 or 5 should work great but grade 8 is the best strongest unless its a metric bolt.

Try Home depo they do have some grade 8 in the mental drawers

 

http://www.k-tbolt.com/bolt_chart.html