 Weltmeister Urethane control arm Bushings, How to make them quiet? |
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| skline |
 Oct 9 2004, 08:02 AM
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Born to Drive  Group: Members Posts: 7,910 Joined: 26-December 02 From: Costa Mesa, CA Member No.: 17 Region Association: Southern California  |
I have not even driven the car yet and the bushings squeak a lot! Is there a way to grease these to make them quiet or am I screwed? The car has 0 miles on it, (well pushing it onto the trailer and off a few times) and the bushings are so loud I would be embarassed to drive it. I could run open headers and still hear the creaking coming from these bushings. Someone help me out here, I cant drive this like that.
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| seanery |
Oct 9 2004, 08:08 AM
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waiting to rebuild whitey! Group: Retired Admin Posts: 15,854 Joined: 7-January 03 From: Indy Member No.: 100 Region Association: None |
Man,
you've got to lube them up. Performance & Pelican (and others) are close and sell the Weltmeister grease. When I put the rear sway on (with welt bushings) Dave at GPR said I could use the marine grade wheel bearing grease I had. You want something that won't errode over time with weather (or lack thereof in SoCal). Some folks put zerk (sp?) fittings on them with a groove to hold the grease. My front end bushings are tres squeaky, too. |
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| jim912928 |
Oct 9 2004, 10:09 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,485 Joined: 8-January 04 From: Granger, IN Member No.: 1,536 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
groove the insides with a dremel tool to hold more grease! I did (after putting them on without!...had to take it all apart again.
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| J P Stein |
Oct 9 2004, 10:24 AM
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Irrelevant old fart Group: Members Posts: 8,797 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Vancouver, WA Member No.: 45 Region Association: None |
Aerosol can of oil. Give em' a squirt once in a while....works for about 2 days. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
Basicly, they're shit....but all we had till recently. All the other options listed here require disassembly.....then you may as well go to Meuller bearings and fix the problem for good. |
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| skline |
Oct 9 2004, 10:26 AM
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Born to Drive Group: Members Posts: 7,910 Joined: 26-December 02 From: Costa Mesa, CA Member No.: 17 Region Association: Southern California |
Looks like its coming back apart again.
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| bob174 |
Oct 9 2004, 10:50 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 125 Joined: 9-January 03 From: League City, TX Member No.: 122 |
You use this whale snot stuff to lube the urethane bushings. You can get it at a place called Paragon Products in Corpus Christi. I've used it when I installed urethane bushings, and never heard a squeak. Lasts forever, apparently. There are probably other places you can get it too. You'd only need the one-ounce product.
http://www.paragon-products.com/SearchResu...ch=bushing+lube |
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| Mueller |
Oct 9 2004, 11:30 AM
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914 Freak! Group: Members Posts: 17,146 Joined: 4-January 03 From: Antioch, CA Member No.: 87 Region Association: None 
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QUOTE You use this whale snot stuff to lube the urethane bushings. .....and make sure you have on disposable gloves !!!!!!!!....the stuff will stick to you like Por-15 |
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