Tonight was an historic evening. Not only did I receive my Heritage Motor
certificate on my car, (made June 22, 1968, shipped July 3, 1968, My birthday,
July 3, 1968) but I was actually going to be putting parts back on my car
instead of always taking them off.
If you recall from my last episode, I had used fire to help remove the trailing
arm bushings. After using a wire wheel and my drill to clean out the crud in
the mount holes, I pressed in the new, two-halves polyurethane bushings and
inserted the metal sleeve. I then squeezed the mounting points into the
brackets, and tightened the mounting bolts to the appropriate ft lbs. In
tightening the mounting bolts, I squeezed the brackets against the sleeve
without compressing the poly-u bushings at all. The trailing arm moved easily
up and down with minimal resistance.
Is this correct or do I need to shorten the metal sleeves so that the brackets
compress the bushings? I think what I did is correct, but I just expected a
limited range of motion in the trailing arms with the tension appropriately
torqued. Please help so I can continue to put parts back on. I have a freshly
painted differential (black front, aluminium cover) that will look great
mounted on my nice, clean frame.
Andy
CD6521L
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