[DeTomaso] Front Shock Question

[Thomas Tornblom]

How will this affect the lower bushings more than the upper bushings?

Thomas

JDeRyke at aol.com skrev:
> Whatever shocks you get, I recommend installing polyurethane bushings, at 
> least in the lower mounts. Reason is, the weight of the car will collapse 
> rubber lower rear shock bushings. This collapse then distorts the rubber enough 
> so   the lower shock body touches the a-arm mounting bracket. A 
> hard-to-locate thump or squeek and eventual shock damage will result. I had this happen 
> with stock blue-body Telecars and orange-body Konis. Nothing wrong with the 
> shocks- the noise was strictly from the rubber bushings not able to take 
> the constant load. 
> Note also that after changing the shocks over completely to polyurethane 
> bushings, no detectable increase in road noise resulted- and I used a dB meter 
> in the cab to verify this. Then I changed all the a-arm bushings and the 
> front & rear swaybar mounts to poly- still no extra noise but much better 
> handling. Now, I'm running Koni gas shocks with metal rod-ends in place of 
> bushings, and there's STILL no detectable road noise increase. So if someone 
> tells you that extra noise will result with polyurethane bushings, they are 
> mistaken. Good luck- J DeRyke
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