That's what I've seen in some of the videos, yeah.
Will give it a try now soon. Yesterday while driving on the Autobahn and going over some road bumps I heard some strange "bumpy" noises from what seems to be the rear axle.
Sounded more like a dead shock absorber though, but these are just one year old Kayaba Gas-A-Just shock absorbers. So I think the bushings are now really shot...

 

Autobahn..... Yep. I am suitably jealous. We will never have those here in the states. Americans lack the necessary lane discipline. Grandma in her sedan going 50 in the high speed lane would be way too common.

 

One of my biggest pet peeves. Drives me insane how there aren't more people being pulled over for holding up traffic.

 

Apparently, so long as you are going above the posted minimum, it's all good...... Except for anyone behind you.

 

Probably not like, great advice, but whenever I change leaf bushings I hammer a flat cold chisel into the loop to open it slightly. The bushing then comes out with a couple light taps, then tap in the new one, and work the chisel out. It's spring steel so it doesn't harm the fitment for a few thousandths of an inch.

 

Lower one end at a time. If you can't do the the work from under the truck, I'd sacrifice those ubolts rather than touch anything else (it'll likely turn into more work). I've never gotten old u-bolts off without them being garbage, but I live in the usa rust belt. I haven't done too many leaf spring bushings, but every one I did I just burned the insulator out.

 

I don't think you are supposed to re-use U-bolts anyway, are you??

 

Cheers everyone, I started changing the bushings today.
Installed the new U-bolts but they are longer than the old ones.
The threaded end sticks out about an inch. Should I cut them off?
Thanks for any help!

 

just cut them off

 

Thanks!
Just finished the driver side, cut them off, filed them clean and painted them a little bit to protect them from the rust.
Then I started the other side, was very happy to had a good idea to remove the outer steel bushing parts with my Dremel, then started to install the Energy Suspension bushes. And guess what? Rockauto delivered wrong parts!
There is one smaller bush too much (not a big thing, haha), but one medium bush is missing! Damnit!
Can't continue the installation now and the car is now sitting there, jacked up and is blocking other cars.