Lower control arm bushings
Sorry to bring this up but
@QuickDart360 your mailbox is full. Did you reuse your old spindle, and rubber bushing sleeves?
Do yourself a favor and don’t reuse your pivot pins, get a set of greaseable pins from Firm Feel.
Poly bushings will last darn near forever as long as they 1- fit properly and 2-stay properly lubricated
As long as the poly bushings fit tightly in the old outer bushing shells you can reuse the shells. The bushing should be a
tight slip fit into the old outer shell, and the pivot pin should be a
tight slip fit into the bushing. If they’re loose enough to have any radial play they’re too loose and will wear out rapidly.
You can reuse the old pivot pins if you leave the old inner shells on there. Has to be a tight fit. And then you’ll have no way to grease the pivots without taking stuff apart. If the bushings start squeaking, they MUST be lubricated or again, they’ll wear out.
Both poly and Delrin LCA bushings work very differently from rubber LCA bushings. With rubber bushings the LCA movement is taken up by flex in the rubber, there’s no sliding on the pin. With poly and Delrin the material doesn’t flex, so the movement of the LCA translates into the bushing rotating on the pin. That’s a friction surface that has to be lubricated.
