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Re: a-arm bushings

To: Bert Palte <palte@rt.el.utwente.nl>
Subject: Re: a-arm bushings
From: Robert J Donahue/DELCO <RJDONAHU@mail.delcoelect.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 12:59:05 +0000
From: palte @ rt.el.utwente.nl (Bert Palte) @ USDESMTP
Date: 07/22/96 05:54:30 PM
Subject: Re: a-arm bushings

<Today July 22nd, G.C. wrote:
<
<>The bushings are not hard replace. 
<(snip)
<> Put some wheel bearing grease around the new bushes 
<                      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    ?
<
<Are you serious?
<Doesn't that deteriorate rubber parts?
<
<I use the white soap-like stuff  that tyre outlets use to assemble tyres to
<rims.
<
<  
<Bert

My concern with greasing the rubber bushes is that it
might encourage the bushes to rotate like a bearing.
The whole idea of rubber bushes is that they flex instead
of rotate, thus they don't wear down. Am I wrong?

Bob Donahue, Still Stuck in the '50s
53 MG-TD, under DIY restoration
71 MGB, still in shop
 

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