my PST Strud rod Bushing Fell off the car! *PICS*

Every stone-stock unmolested Mopar I've ever seen has the cup embracing the bushing. To face it the other way is to concentrate the load on the center of the bushing, not distribute it over the bushing. If we think about how the arm moves, the cup follows the arc of the swing, and compresses (and retains the compressed side) of the bushing during arm travel. See below. The cupped side out forces the bushing away from the shaft and tries to split it apart! Think how a chisel or an axe works: You're concentrating the load on a small area.

The FSM backs all this up.

Besides, if it was in Mopar Muscle I'd discard it on premise. I've yet to read anything technical in that mag that's consistently correct or even interesting. Like how they recommended tossing the ballast resistor for stock ignitions? C'mon, seriously.

I don't know what the writing is about. Possibly parts robbed from Transverse T-bar world (I would expect poor engineering from them...). I've never seen an unmolested Mopar with those "this side out" washers, anyways.

A quickie drawing with bushing in blue and the washer in red. See how the cup tries to capture the bushing?