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RE: traling arms continued

To: "'Robert M. Lang'" <lang@isis.mit.edu>,
Subject: RE: traling arms continued
From: "Jim Davis" <jdavis344@bellsouth.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 19:49:16 -0400
Mine squeak noticeably. Spring project is to drop the trailing arms and
lube the bushings.

Jim Davis
Fortson, GA
CF38690UO
CF37325U



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-6pack@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-6pack@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Robert M. Lang
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 9:32 AM
To: Skip Montanaro
Cc: Andrew Packard; 6pack (E-mail)
Subject: Re: traling arms continued


On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Skip Montanaro wrote:

>     Andrew> ... I pressed in the new, two-halves polyurethane bushings
and
>     Andrew> inserted the metal sleeve.  I then squeezed the mounting
points
>     Andrew> into the brackets, and tightened the mounting bolts to the
>     Andrew> appropriate ft lbs.  In tightening the mounting bolts, I
>     Andrew> squeezed the brackets against the sleeve without
compressing the
>     Andrew> poly-u bushings at all.  The trailing arm moved easily up
and
>     Andrew> down with minimal resistance.
> 
> Isn't some sort of graphite lubricant called for with these polyu 
> bushings? You didn't mention using any, so I figured I'd mention it to

> be sure.
> 
> Skip

At the very least, you want to use some anti-sieze compound on the pivot
bolt so it doesn't sieze into the sleeve.

Other that that, you don't really need to lubricate the bushings. I
never lubed mine when I installed them 40 miles ago, no squeaks yet!

rml
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