[DeTomaso] offset bushings installation - SOLVED

[Curt Hall]

So much for a Vendor adding a simple (How To Instructions) with your order. Might have saved you some time and confusion?
 
Just a thought

--- On Tue, 7/26/11, Larry Finch <fresnofinches at aol.com> wrote:


From: Larry Finch <fresnofinches at aol.com>
Subject: [DeTomaso] offset bushings installation - SOLVED
To: detomaso at realbig.com
Date: Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 2:04 PM


All,

A few days back I asked for ideas on how to install the offset bushings supplied by Dennis Quella.
I had only received four offset bushings in a full set of 16.

Some thought they both went on the bottom arm, to shift it forward. Some thought they went
on the top arm to shift it back. Some thought I should have received 8 offset bushings to shift both arms.

Well, we were all wrong.

Just finished talking with Dennis, who provided the designed installation method.

As you know, the outer end of each stock metal / rubber bushing has the inner-sleeve face and the outer-sleeve face,
resulting in the outer end of each bushing being thicker than the inner end.

You can all freely view this at Mike Dailey's www.panteraplace.com website -

http://panteraplace.com/Tools/Taylor%20Vice%20Figure%201.jpg

Dennis casts all 16 bushings in the same mold. In each full set, 12 of them are machined
to duplicate the stock steel bushings - thicker flanges on one end than the opposite end.

The 4 offset bushings are machined to REALLY make one end thinner than the other. So much so that
a metal washer is supplied as a spacer on the thick flange to keep the overall-width of the bushing the same as stock.

As was suggested, the desired result is to shift the front lower A-arm forward, and shifting the front upper A-arm rearward
adds even more caster. 

However, according to Dennis the proper installation has ONLY ONE offset bushing installed in each of the four front A-arms.

The opposite side of each A-arm then gets a standard OEM sized bushing BUT....

that bushing is reversed from stock, so the thicker flange is to the inside instead of the outside.

You can all freely view this photo at the POCA website  to see how this works -

http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=32983

Larry


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