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mrsprite

mrsprite

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Has anyone here installed poly bushings in their Spridget? I have done this many times on other cars and it required burning out the old rubber to reuse the sleeve.

I was working on the trunnion bushings on my Bugeye and they have no sleeves, but there is a metal insert (inner sleeve?) on the stock rubber bushing......do I need to reuse this or just install the poly as it came out of the wrapper (using nothing from the old bushing)?



Thanks. I don't want to do more work than necessary. :smile:
 
Polys are a direct replacement but keep in mind that the car needs to have some "give" in the suspension. I did a full poly set up on one of my Sprites and it was the worst driving car ever. Hit the white line in the road and it would change lanes. I only use poly on the sway bar mounts now.
 
Thanks.....so no need to reuse anything from the rubber bushings, right? (just want to clarify that)

My car came with a brand new set of rubber bushings when I bought it, so if I don't like the poly I can easily switch back (albeit a few dollars poorer).

FWIW, the poly bushings I got seem "softer" than the bushings I've used in the past on other cars.
 
As I recall the metal inserts would not go in my poly bushings from Vicky Brit, so I left them out and not problems so far. It is a bit stiffer but much better than the wobbly loose wornout rubber ones that I had. You get more road feel. I put my steering rack together pretty tight. It was one of those things where one more shim was too loose and one less was tight, so I left it tight hopeing it will wear in some and get just a bit looser. One thing I have noticed is that there is a stretch of interstate here that has grooves cut in it and with my wider tires and stiff steering the car really gets wierd on that stuff.
 
mrsprite said:
Thanks.....so no need to reuse anything from the rubber bushings, right? (just want to clarify that)
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Correct
 
Thanks for the input everyone. I got the trunnion bushings done and will wait to do the conrol arms until I pull the engine out next weekend to do a clutch job.
 
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