Rebel racing rear trailing arm bushings- install help please |
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Rebel racing rear trailing arm bushings- install help please |
Mr. Olympic Blue 2 You |
Jan 2 2016, 08:09 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 134 Joined: 7-September 10 From: Puyallup, WA Member No.: 12,150 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
Hey gang,
I did find a thread or 2 about the rebel racing rear trailing arm bushings but never heard what holds the sleeve in the actual trailing arm...and of course no instructions were incl. I can call Clint on Monday of course but was hoping someone could pass along some install tips so I can wrap this up this weekend. Are these supposed to be JB welded like the fronts? I'm not optimistic JB would hold in this area? Any help appreciated! Andrew |
lonewolfe |
Jan 2 2016, 11:48 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 819 Joined: 12-September 11 From: Oakland, CA Member No.: 13,549 Region Association: Northern California |
On mine, the sleeves are too small in diameter and fall right out of the trailing arms. Clint said he would send shims but never has. He said to drill some holes in the trailing arm, shim the sleeves, center them then mig weld the 2-3 holes that were drilled into the ends of the control arm tubes to permanently attach the sleeves to the control arms. I bought the rear control arm bushing kit a year and a half ago and it's still not installed. The other problem I had was one of the control arm axle rods will not fit into the sleeve while the other one fit nice and tight. The two axle rods are different diameters. This product now comes with shims but I have not been able to get them to send me a set. Clint is a great guy to speak with on the phone if you can reach him but absolutely refuses to follow up with me. I believe including the shims is an improvement but ideally it should come with new axle rods like the ones from Tangerine and Elephant. It would increase the cost but would make these easy to install. It should not be up the the buyer to figure out how to re-engineer this product to make it work.
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