 Rear Suspension Sqeaking After Bushing Replacement, Found the Answer - not the trailing arm bushings |
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| nick mironov |
 Apr 16 2013, 10:23 PM
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nickm  Group: Members Posts: 204 Joined: 12-June 05 From: San Francisco, CA Member No.: 4,264  |
After finding one rear bushing had failed, I replaced all of the rear bushings with a new Elephant re-greaseable polybronze bushing kit (including the shafts). The rear suspension still squeaks (not the front) I was under the impression that the Elephant bearings would cure the squeaking.
What else is there that could be sqeaking? Nick |
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| bandjoey |
Apr 18 2013, 10:35 AM
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bandjoey Group: Members Posts: 4,934 Joined: 26-September 07 From: Bedford Tx Member No.: 8,156 Region Association: Southwest Region |
Getting ready to do mine. In several threads here I read the info is to to sand / trim down the large lip of the bushing so it goes a little further in the tube of the swing arm. The shoulder of the metal center threaded rod needs to hit flush the body of the car. If the outer lip of the bushing is too thick, it's squeeking on the body and the rod is not seated metal to metal.
Since I havn't inserted my bushings yet, this is only a read from threads. Are your metal rod shoulder to the body or is the llip of the bushing too thick? Something to look at. The threads also tell of taking a small saw blade to score the inside of the bushing and pack with grease before installation. Let me know you figure this out. Thanks Bill |
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nick mironov Rear Suspension Sqeaking After Bushing Replacement Apr 16 2013, 10:23 PM
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After finding one rear bushing had failed, I repl... Apr 17 2013, 08:18 AM ThePaintedMan I installed the hard polyurethane bushings that Er... Apr 17 2013, 09:01 AM skeates Did the pitch or tone of the squeak change after y... Apr 17 2013, 10:38 AM
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Did the pitch or tone of the squeak change after ... Apr 17 2013, 03:38 PM skeates
The quality of the sound is about the same as bef... Apr 17 2013, 11:18 PM pcar916 My Elephant stuff is utterly quiet unless I forget... Apr 17 2013, 01:40 PM pcar916 Role the car up on something short, like the solid... Apr 18 2013, 05:53 AM mskala For the rear, to make things easy, just disconnect... Apr 18 2013, 09:47 AM nick mironov I think that I figured out where the squeaking/bin... Apr 21 2013, 04:00 PM nick mironov The Bilstein bushing part number is: #e4-b46-55
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