Aluminum strut rods on the street?
Yep, them's the ones. Basically doing a stock front end rebuild on my Duster in the coming weeks. I have all OE-type (Moog) rubber bushings including new strut rod bushings.
I thought about re using the old ones but they're just old and frankly, the front end on my car has seen better days. I'm sure the strut rods have been bearing the brunt of all sorts of unnatural forces being applied to them due to worn out parts.
Just a better mousetrap I suppose. Again though, I like the weight savings, (however minimal) especially unsprung weight on the front of the car. I have aluminum tie rod adjuster sleeves, they're a pound lighter than the OE steel ones.
I really can't argue for any big gain vs. price on these things or any part that comes out with an 'updated' design. Every little bit counts though and if given the choice to spend a little more coin on a lighter part vs. an OE style deal, I'd probably go with the lighter one. I do try to do that as much as possible in other areas, just seems to make sense to me to lighten the car as much as possible (within reason and safely of course).
These are the ones you're talking about right?
Yep, them's the ones. Basically doing a stock front end rebuild on my Duster in the coming weeks. I have all OE-type (Moog) rubber bushings including new strut rod bushings.
I thought about re using the old ones but they're just old and frankly, the front end on my car has seen better days. I'm sure the strut rods have been bearing the brunt of all sorts of unnatural forces being applied to them due to worn out parts.
Just a better mousetrap I suppose. Again though, I like the weight savings, (however minimal) especially unsprung weight on the front of the car. I have aluminum tie rod adjuster sleeves, they're a pound lighter than the OE steel ones.
I really can't argue for any big gain vs. price on these things or any part that comes out with an 'updated' design. Every little bit counts though and if given the choice to spend a little more coin on a lighter part vs. an OE style deal, I'd probably go with the lighter one. I do try to do that as much as possible in other areas, just seems to make sense to me to lighten the car as much as possible (within reason and safely of course).
