Problem with Elephant Poly Bronze Front Bushings, Whipped it! Now swinging freely! |
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Problem with Elephant Poly Bronze Front Bushings, Whipped it! Now swinging freely! |
bobhasissues |
Dec 31 2010, 03:28 PM
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seemingly endless issues with my 914 Group: Members Posts: 218 Joined: 13-February 07 From: Chicagoland Member No.: 7,532 Region Association: None |
Installed the poly bronze front bushings last spring. They were binding. To alleviate some of the binding I bought, from McMaster Carr, spherical washers for the frontside mounts. This helped quite a lot, but there was still a bit of binding. I figured I also needed spherical washers on the backside mounts as well to get these things to rotate without binding. My plan was to replicate the $200 Elephant backside mounts by machining enough material off the top and bottom sides of the backside mounts to accommodate spherical washers. I began this project today.
When I started to take the control arms off the car, every one the base (concave) sides of the washers fell off in pieces. I couldn't believe it. When I assembled this stuff I only gave them a good snug down with a socket wrench, no over tightening. I do not want to continue this project and modify the backside mounts if the conical washers cannot hold up. These are the washers I bought for the front mounts, same manufacturer for the backs, just a larger size. I bought case hardened steel rather than stainless due to the 12 sets x $15 per set price difference. Has anyone had a similar experience? Any advise to help me get this resolved will be greatly appreciated. |
r_towle |
Dec 31 2010, 03:36 PM
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Custom Member Group: Members Posts: 24,624 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Taxachusetts Member No.: 124 Region Association: North East States |
curious why you need them at all?
You say that they bind,,, If you loosen up the rear bolt and re-align the rear cross member, does that help? Is the binding because you need to lower the front mounts? What is Elephant rational for that issue? I have linear bearings...no binding when I put them in... Rich |
bobhasissues |
Dec 31 2010, 03:51 PM
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seemingly endless issues with my 914 Group: Members Posts: 218 Joined: 13-February 07 From: Chicagoland Member No.: 7,532 Region Association: None |
curious why you need them at all? You say that they bind,,, If you loosen up the rear bolt and re-align the rear cross member, does that help? Is the binding because you need to lower the front mounts? What is Elephant rational for that issue? I have linear bearings...no binding when I put them in... Rich When I installed these I started a thread about the binding, got a lot of advise and tried everything that was suggested over and over again. Everything moves freely when just snugged down. The fronts can be tightened down and still rotate freely but the binding develops when I do the final tightening on the rear mounts. The binding isn't severe, but they are not rotating freely in the full range of travel, they bind as they approach a horizontal plane. It's very frustrating. |
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