Rear suspension, What’s this. Options

[pek771]

Hi all,
This is not what I was expecting when I took the rear suspension out to inspect. Are these some sort of plastic bushings?
TIA
Pat

[pek771]

Left rear trailing arm was damaged once, but I think it is ok and will align just fine. Looks like the car was hit once: understeered into a wall, left front, and left rear followed. The damage was very slight. My guess is that reinforced trailing arms would compromise the suspension consoles if this happened again.

I ordered new pivots from 914rubber, which are some sort of stainless, and solid. I am hoping no galvanic corrosion occurs with the 4130 hat bushings I made. I am contemplating welding up the ends of the old pivots, and turning them back down to 14 mm in the lathe. le in the way. I’ve also put in new rubber bushings, and pressed out the Delrin bushings.

There is very little information available for the rear suspension structures for a street car. Race cars are different, probably due to the high maintenance requirements for racing. My new 100 lb Weltmeister springs are 2.5” longer than my old springs, so I’m guessing where to put the bottom support ring on the shock. Anyone know the free length of a stock spring?

Next is to do the front suspension before I put the gas tank battery back in. I can’t wait to see what that looks like.



Can’t get at the steering coupler with that modu.