Good advice!
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> From: Growe58@aol.com[SMTP:Growe58@aol.com]
> Reply To: Growe58@aol.com
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 10:06 PM
> To: spitfires@autox.team.net
> Subject: Trunnion bushings wasRe: wheel wobble woes
>
>
> In a message dated 2/21/00 11:20:10 PM EST, HD50EL@aol.com writes:
>
> > Jeff, the most likely culprit is the nylon bushings in the lower
> trunnion.
> > These tend to wear out within 50k, so this is what I would check first.
> My
> > Spitfire has 48k original miles on it, and the trunnion bushings had
> > excessive play in them, so I replaced them.
>
> While we're on the subject of trunnion bushings, may I offer some personal
> observations? Regularly we have a post from some lister who has a siezed
> through bolt and the BTDT advice is to cut it out and use anti-sieze
> compound
> on reassembly. I believe that the cause of the siezed bolt is as follows:
> as
> the trunnion bushes begin to wear, some play develops. This means that
> every bump you hit "crashes" the suspension onto the sleeve
> surrounding the through bolt. Small wonder that they meld together.
>
> My solution is to change the bushings regularly. But what you may not be
> aware of is that rather than buying the whole $50 trunnion bushing kit,
> the
> bushes are available individually and they are CHEAP! TRF lists them for
> $.50 each. So I swap out the bushings alone every 15,000 or so miles and
> then do a proper rebuild with a complete kit at say 50,000 mile intervals.
>
> My .02. YMMV.
>
> Greg Rowe
> 78 Spitfire
>
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