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Re: Lower Wishbones

To: "Patrick Bowen" <pabowen@mediaone.net>, <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Lower Wishbones
From: Sam Gentry <hsgentry@cfw.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 06:29:39 -0500
I had the same problem on my 80.  I just replaced the lower A arm.  got it 
from someone on the list almost free.  I had offers from a 6 pack to 
$75.  Shop around... good chance to renew the bushings while you are at 
it.  Takes about an hour.

Sam

At 08:22 PM 2/14/2000 -0500, Patrick Bowen wrote:

>While working on my cars suspension I have ran into the problem where the
>passenger side lower wishbone's sway bar bracket, where it connects to the
>link, is broken.  the DPO did a poor job of welding a washer onto it as a
>fix.  I am trying for a really nice car and this is not what I want so I am
>looking for a good cheap wishbone.  More importantly I have checked into a
>few of these and it seems this is a common problem as the ones I have found
>are broken as well.  Is this a weak link in the suspension?  I imagine that
>the easy fix is to cut a piece of metal the same shape and weld it over it
>as a reinforcement, but I don't have the resources to cut them.  Has anyone
>ever done this, or even had this problem, or is my life totally unique in
>this aspect.  Thanks  Patrick Bowen
>


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