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  Jan 27 2005, 05:37 PM
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Since this has no useful tech and has been covered previously I thought I'd post my rant in here.
This applies to the '93+ F-body. I just took the front lca's off my car. I replaced the bushings in them with Energy Suspension bushings in the summer. Well after just a few autocross events the caster bushings on BOTH sides are ripped in half and one side had almost spit the bushing completely out. (The caster bushing are the rear bushing on the front LCA's). I was mainly doing this to replace them as preventive maintenance. I had read where others had experienced a caster bushing failure and didn't want to take a risk of it happening mid summer. I have a set of prothane poly bushings here. The caster bushing on these is completely different and looks much stouter-however I don't know what it will do. Others have used the Moog replacement caster bushing sucessfully-use that if you're looking for a replacement. Also from what I can tell the bushings have been shot for a while which might explain some ( not all) of my car's nasty behavior over bumps and dead feeling in slaloms. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/rant2.gif) GRRRR. |
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Feb 13 2005, 08:21 PM
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QUOTE (sgarnett @ Feb 13 2005, 10:27 AM) I'm curious to see what my stock caster bushings look like. My factory bushings looked surprisingly good at 101K miles. About 92K of those were accumulated in eastern PA (think lots of road salt and crappy roads). |
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robz71lm7 Energy Suspension sucks! Jan 27 2005, 05:37 PM
Sam Strano Yup, that's the problem. Little did I know at... Jan 27 2005, 05:42 PM robz71lm7 I had just finished mine right when Lonnie told me... Jan 27 2005, 05:49 PM rmackintosh I have ZERO street miles on mine and MAYBE 5-6 rac... Jan 27 2005, 07:24 PM bruecksteve So how long did they last?? I put mine on last yea... Jan 27 2005, 07:33 PM y5e06 hmmm, I installed my bushings a couple months ago.... Jan 27 2005, 08:49 PM Cannibal Where do we get MOOG replacement bushings, any of ... Jan 27 2005, 09:56 PM ESPCamaro Sam do you/can you sell prothane parts? Jan 27 2005, 10:12 PM robz71lm7 QUOTE (bruecksteve @ Jan 27 2005, 02:33 PM)So... Jan 27 2005, 11:34 PM sgarnett QUOTE (Cannibal @ Jan 27 2005, 04:56 PM)Where... Jan 28 2005, 01:52 AM bruecksteve I went through all last season with them. I haven... Jan 28 2005, 01:55 AM Racer X QUOTE (sgarnett @ Jan 27 2005, 07:52 PM)I thi... Jan 28 2005, 02:34 AM Sam Strano Let's see if I can answer all the questions in... Jan 28 2005, 06:08 PM 00 SS Is the MOOG stuff stock class legal? Since it... Jan 28 2005, 06:22 PM ESPCamaro QUOTE (Sam Strano @ Jan 28 2005, 12:08 PM)Let... Jan 28 2005, 10:34 PM Formula WS6 man im glad i read this. i figured since id need t... Jan 29 2005, 08:49 PM robz71lm7 QUOTE (Sam Strano @ Jan 28 2005, 01:08 PM)Let... Jan 30 2005, 04:38 AM rmackintosh ...heres what you get after a few track days and Z... Feb 1 2005, 07:10 AM robz71lm7 Anyways the arms on now with new prothane bushings... Feb 9 2005, 03:58 AM sgarnett QUOTE (robz71lm7 @ Feb 8 2005, 10:58 PM)Sean,... Feb 13 2005, 04:27 PM robz71lm7 My stock caster bushings were both torn at 30 some... Feb 13 2005, 08:28 PM Timz06 I blew the exhaust gasket out between the header a... Feb 16 2005, 05:46 PM sgarnett OK, I've got some new confusion to add to the ... Mar 13 2005, 10:26 PM ESPCamaro My question is what did Sam's stock ones look ... Mar 13 2005, 11:03 PM sgarnett QUOTE (ESPCamaro @ Mar 13 2005, 06:03 PM)My q... Mar 14 2005, 01:15 AM robz71lm7 QUOTE (sgarnett @ Mar 13 2005, 05:26 PM)OK, I... Mar 15 2005, 10:49 PM sgarnett QUOTE (robz71lm7 @ Mar 15 2005, 05:49 PM)My E... Mar 16 2005, 12:41 AM
firehawkclone I also will be installing the prothane set, and i... Mar 16 2005, 02:39 AM |
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