Jim, I get it," spring project!" LOL
Richard Seaton
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Davis
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 7:01 PM
To: 'Robert M. Lang'; 'Skip Montanaro'
Cc: 'Andrew Packard'; '6pack (E-mail)'
Subject: RE: traling arms continued
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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