I emailed Loogy about his urethane bushings and his stuff is a new compound that wears like urethane, but has some give to it so you're not vibrated to death like a race application. When the cash comes, I'll be buying his set up for sure Front control arm sleeves are stainless steel!! and he offers rear control arm bushings too. DM&FS At 11:09 PM 4/15/2011, Andrew Martin wrote: >Christopher at T3 Technique sells the PowerFlex line for a bit more but with >shipping. > >http://www.t3technique.com/powerflex-bushings.html > >I don't know if Christopher is on this list but he's a huge contributor on >the Samba and the Vanagon community in general. > >Andrew > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of >Robert Ueltzen >Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 7:57 PM >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >Subject: Re: Can a Manual Steering Rack Fail Internally? > >Powerflex has bushings for our Vanagons: >http://store.powerflexusa.com/volkswagen-vanagon-1980---1992-urethane-bushin >gs-p1188.aspx > >On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Alan Felder <dieseldoofus@gmail.com> wrote: > > They can go to as much as 1/4" play at the end bushing. Mine was that >bad, > > till I replaced it. Wished that I could find a source for replacement > > bushings because otherwise, the rack was fine. > > > > > >> > >> -- > >> Alan Felder > >> Austin TX > >> 82 Diesel Westy > >> > > |
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