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MARTINSR
AMC Addicted Joined: Sep/08/2009 Location: SF bay area Ca Status: Offline Points: 670 |
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Posted: Feb/23/2018 at 8:15am |
I seldom go cheap and worry about price but damn the bushings I have found would cost me $220 and I need to at least look a little for cheaper ones. Do you guys have any sources for these bushings that are a little better priced?
Upper and lower, I am thinking I may just put the used control arms I have which have pretty decent bushings in them but at this age they could fail at any time like the ones in the car I have to assume and I hate to waste my time. The prices I got were from Gavlins.
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1959 Rambler American daily driver. And I mean EVERY SINGLE day.
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tomj
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i've been posting on and off for about a year about early american bushings. yup,t hat's what they cost, and i wont buy old (new, but old) rubber. someone told me that the ones that some AMC suppliers are selling now, are new NEW, but i'm skeptical.
new in the box, but made in the 80's, is still 30+ years old and i wont install them in my car regardless of price. the good news is that i'm currently driving on bushings that i made, inexpensively, from soft polyurethane bushings from RideTech. the assembly process is minorly intricate but i put together a detailed assembly process for them, on this overly-long page here on my website: http://sr-ix.com/AMC/1961-Rambler-Roadster/front-suspension/index.html about halfway down. though i made a jig and used a flycutter on my mill-drill, you could make the necessary cuts with a hacksaw. i'd jam them into the end of a 5/8" dowel or rod to support them then cut. harder to fabricate is the thin spacer necessary to fill in behind the cupped washers. but all you need is any thing material that's hard (aluminum, ABS or similar plastic), some hole saws and a small drill press (for this i used my ancient tiny Delta drill press). i think these are better than OEM-replacements, in that the particular poly is a great "hardness" for this, fairly soft for poly, and shouldn't rot. they shouldn't squeak either given the tensions. $2 each, you need 16 for the whole car. |
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ramblinrev
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There do appear to be new ones on the market. Look carefully and I think you'll do fine!
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MARTINSR
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DAMN that's a great link, you did one awesome job on the work in the shop and the work on the computer putting it together, awesome and thanks so much. I did use the same sort of bushings on the idler arm and they have performed well for me. Brian
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1959 Rambler American daily driver. And I mean EVERY SINGLE day.
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