[urq] Delrin bushings

[Glen Dustin Powell]

Thanks for the info! I will contact 2B about their recall/upgrade procedure
on this!

-glen


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Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 11:12 PM
To: nathan.stuart at maine.edu; gpowell at ennovatenetworks.com;
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Subject: Re: [urq] Delrin bushings


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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