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IIRC, I had a lot of bolt threads showing on mine,too, so I put the bolt in upside down.Looks like poster #2,(still 17 characters), also did.You can always hacksaw the excess off, just leave enough to reuse the bolt if you ever have to. But I doubt you ever will, cuz like,on my car those bushing are going on 16 years old, and have over 125,000 miles on 'em.
They don't have to be very tight to work properly,on a streeter. If they are a little loose, they might be noisy. If they are very tight, they tend to split the bushing.On a streeter with 1.03 T-bars,and HD shocks, those links don't work very hard.