[urq] Delrin bushings

JShadzi at aol.com JShadzi at aol.com
Fri Sep 22 00:11:33 EDT 2000


In a message dated 9/21/00 4:32:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
nathan.stuart at maine.edu writes:

<< 
 > The Delrin bushings I use (from 2B)in my 4KQ road-race car (same as ur-q)
 > have no sleeves. I find the bolts loosen very rapidly as you can not
 really
 > torque them down too tighly or binding will result. 2B supplies a
 lubricant
 > with theirs, looks like anti-seize but I have no idea of the actual
 > composition of the supplied lubricant. The rapid loosening of the bolts
 > makes them somewhat impractical/dangerous to use on the street IMFO. I
 > finally tired of tightening them after every event (a pain to get a wrench
 > up inside the control arms) and drilled the bolts for cotter-pins as a
 > safety measure. Beware.
 > >>

    The newly designed 2B bushings have metal sleeves which definitely helps 
in the loosening department.  They also recommend that you use lock tite and 
double nut them.  That is how I have done my car and there is no 
loosening-double nutting will solve that. HTH,
Javad



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