... While they are a handling improvement over rubber, I just don't care for them in control arms, and would never use them on a lower control arm. I use them for strut rods and sway bar links
Hi Demon, would you mind elaborating on what you don't like about them? Just trying to get as much info on them as I can.
Thanks!
I would never use them in lower control arms. Not safe in my opinion.
A stock rubber bushing is pressed into the control arm, and the pivot shaft. Together, it is as one, and effectively locks the lower control arm from moving fore and aft.
With the urethane bushings, the bushings do not press in place. The control arm can actually move back and forth. The torsion bar and its little snap clip do not control fore and aft movement, nor should they. Slop in the lower control arm? No thanks.
