Check Your Steering Dampers

I happened to have one onhand from a parts car I stripped and junked a couple years ago. And I took the extra step of reinforcing the replacement so it cannot come apart like that. I applied some polyurethane adhesive around the outer circumference and snugged a hose clamp around it. It can crack all it wants now, but should not be able to come apart like that.

I don't know why they didn't engineer them more that in the first place. How is a chunk of rubber ever going to last in an application like that? What were they thinking? Guess it lasted long enough to get out of warranty.