Poly sway bar bushings?

[ericsmith32]

:scratch: http://www.fulcrumsuspensions.com.au/fulcrumCat/

Put in Festiva.. they say they're poly but i've never heard of this company before.

[ericsmith32]

Never mind based in Aussie...

[Guest]

You are scaring me DJ .
I had the shop that rebuilt the tranny put them on when I done the new axle and the lower arms .

They were for my car and I know that they were 2 bushings and 2 spacers per side .

What have I done now :roll:

You are talking about the front swaybar bushings correct? And if so look underneath the front and see if they're distorted.. If they are, they've already started to slip. From the side, ES Polys will look like this


That is the metal bracket that fails on our cars (at least without the plate I made) Because our bushings seats on the frame aren't flat kind of dished, I made a flat plate that goes across the dish making it flat. Then the bushing sits right and doesn't distort.

[packrat427]

No , I'm sorry .. I did not even think about that .

I only replaced the end bushings to control arms , Those pivot bushings I did not replace , as in your pic there ... Whew :lol:

[glacius182]

DJ, if I got you correct, you made a plate that sits from hole to hole, between the bushing and the car?

[ericsmith32]

I think I found a poly bushing for the control arm.

These are rough measurements:
Flange diameter (outer) 1.625
Flange thickness .5
Barrell length 1.250
Outer Diameter 1.250 (inside the tube)
Inner Diameter .750
Length of the 2 bushings for the both inners: 1.250

The nearest thing I can find on ES's website is #9.9107
Tube wise it's:
Inner Diameter 1.250"
Length 1.312"

Bushing:
Outer Diameter 1.265"
Inner Diameter 0.750"
Barrell Length 0.614"
Flange Outer 1.630"
Flange thickness 0.219"

Sorry if it's hard to read.. all of those numbers are hard to line up. Here's the link:

http://www.energysuspension.com/pages/univ2.html

I really need to get a digital measurement tool, can't remember the exact name. To me it looks like it would work.. What do you think? Next is the control arm.. I don't think I can find one though.

[Guest]

DJ, if I got you correct, you made a plate that sits from hole to hole, between the bushing and the car?

exactly.. took all of about an hour.. IMHO, it was more than worth the effort.

[ericsmith32]

For the inner control arm:
Inner diameter 1"
Depth 1.5"
Bolt .375"
Length of barrell/entire bushing. 1.875

I didn't find anything of ES's website but i'll try again. Prothane has a shock mount bushing that's close #19-920. It'a two piece.

http://www.prothane.com/pages/productguide.html

Inner Diameter 1.030"
Bolt 12mm
Depth .620"
Length of entire bushing 1.620

I think it maybe to short i'll keep looking. I took a hole drill bit and drilled out the bushing on the end.

[ericsmith32]

Looks like 7ish for both. I guess i'll have to try to find a retailer that's sells both brands. O'Reillys sells energy suspension.. don't know about prothane's.

[BlackMagic]

Can anyone give the Moog Blu part number?

[ericsmith32]

If you go to O'Reillys they have it in their system.

[fastivaca]

exactly.. took all of about an hour.. IMHO, it was more than worth the effort.

Was there any negative effects on front end alignment?

[Guest]

^^no. I had it aligned when I replaced one of the tie rod ends about a month later. The mech said it was barely off. But I pretty much attributed that to me replacing the tie rod end myself because I didn't have any tire wear or bad handling or anything before.

[F3BZ]

Can anyone give the Moog Blu part number?

red bushings are like, sooo yesterday.[img][/img]

[mattswabb]

http://www.partsamerica.com/ProductDetail.aspx?mfrcode=MOO&mfrpartnumber=K9737&parttype=77&ptset=A