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Date:         Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:25:47 -0400
Reply-To:     Mark Gajewski <mgajewski@MANVILLERUBBER.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mark Gajewski <mgajewski@MANVILLERUBBER.COM>
Subject:      Re: Upper Control Arm Bushings
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Frank Condelli wrote:


>         My '87 Westy's upper contril arm bushings are loose, well just one is
> actually, on the right side, the front most one.  My question to all of you
> is this.  I installed new upper control arm bushings in September of 1995
> at 178,200 km and now at 263,000 km one is loose again.  Is 85,000 km a
> normal life cycle for these bushings ?


This sounds like a premature failure to me.  Is is possible you didn't shim the
bushing properly when installing it?  The bushing shouldn't have more than about
.020" slop side to side before you tighten the bolt.  If you have more slop than
this you need to put the proper thickness shim in there to take up the slop.
Otherwise the rubber "sandwich" will be in stressed position which can cause
premature failure.


Mark
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