[DeTomaso] Front Shock Question

[Rob Dumoulin]

My car still has the stock spring spacers.  When I pull those out, do I need
to get poly bushings.  Do the stock spring spacers sit atop the bushings?

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 2:49 PM, <JDeRyke at aol.com> wrote:

> 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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