[urq] Delrin bushings

[Glen Dustin Powell]

Why not double nut? It's real tought to get up inside the control arm to get
a wrench on a single nut! I do double-nut the cat bolts, they are also very
prone to loosening but failure here would not be catastrophic as loosing a
control arm bushing nut/bolt could be. I plan to replace the dangerous solid
Delrin units with the new ones from 2B with the sleeves. I'll continue to
use the safety-pinned single nuts with them.

Anyone ever loose a front strut-to-control arm bolt? BTDT Nasty!

-glen


-----Original Message-----
From: urq-admin at audifans.com [mailto:urq-admin at audifans.com]On Behalf Of
Nate Stuart
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 7:28 PM
To: Glen Dustin Powell; DGraber460 at aol.com; quattro at audifans.com
Cc: urq at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [urq] Delrin bushings


Why not double nut them??? With loctite for a deffinate lock.

-Nate

> 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.
>
> -glen
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: urq-admin at audifans.com [mailto:urq-admin at audifans.com]On Behalf Of
> DGraber460 at aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 3:42 PM
> To: quattro at audifans.com
> Cc: urq at audifans.com
> Subject: [urq] Delrin bushings
>
>
> Does anyone have the dimensional specs for the control arm bushings on the
> 4k, URQ, & CGT cars?
> I have a lathe and can get Delrin rod from our vendors. I have made
> suspension bushings for old Jaguar cars (friends, etc.) form Ultra Hi
> Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE), and would like to try to make some
> Delrin units for my URQ.
> Do the commercially available units use a steel center sleeve? What sort
of
> clearance do they have, e.g., press fit, etc.? Are they a mere copy
> dimensionally of the original?
> TIA
>
> Dennis
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