If you inspect the new bushing carefully you will see the rubber piece between the inner and outer sleeves creped and twisted. If only a few thousand miles and a few months I would send it/them back as defective. Only way parts suppliers-manufacturers know about problems is to get the feedback. Dennis
-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of OlRivrRat Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 9:00 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Squeaking front bushings My, Now 5000mi old, OEM Upper ControlArm Bush's started squawking a While ago & I tried Spraying them, ToNoAvail, with TriFlo IIRC ~ Then sometime in the last few weeks we had some HeavyPrecip'Days & the Squawks stopped but then returned in the DryDays that followed ~ So I figured I'd try again ~ But this time I used CRC HeavyDuty SiliconeSpray & it worked ~ Don't ask me why ~
ORR ~ DeanB On 26 Feb , 2015, at 6:23 PM, Stuart MacMillan wrote: > I've sprayed silicone once with no effect, so I'm going to keep at it > a few more times! > > Stuart |
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