[urq] Strut tower bearings for early UrQ

[Thatcher Hubbard]

My "plan", if you can ever remotely consider what I do to my car as
well-planned, was to use the spherical bearing units on the front, and
when I saw his reinforced ones, try those on the rear.

Mike, when you do get your car back on the road, I'd be VERY
interested to hear what sort of effect those bearing units have on
handling.  I would anticipate that they'd sharpen turn-in
considerably.

On 5/11/06, Ingo Rautenberg <i.rautenberg at waratap.com> wrote:
> Yeah.  I was just thinking the same thing. Just e-mailed him.  Need
> to do the rears on the '84 and don't look forward to doing them again
> anytime soon...
>
> On May 11, 2006, at 5:00 PM, Brady Moffatt wrote:
>
> > Isn't Mance up to something new, using stock "green" bearings and
> > reinforcing them with a poly spacer? I saw something in the
> > marketplace
> > about these recently. Looked cool.
> >
> > No affiliation, couldn't pick him out of a lineup, etc.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Brady
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thatcher Hubbard [mailto:thatcher.hubbard at gmail.com]
> > S
> >
> > The difference I've heard between the "green" 4kq units and the "blue"
> > Urq ones is that the blue ones are of a much harder rubber.  I think
> > at least one Urq owner on the list has tried the green ones and
> > completely worn them out in very short order.
> >
> > The increasing difficulty in find the blue units is what led me to an
> > interest in those spherical bearing units Mance Etheridge was making,
> > not sure if he's still doing it though.  At $395 for the pair though,
> > if they work as advertised, it's a deal.
> >
> > On 5/11/06, Ben Swann <benswann at comcast.net> wrote:
> >> I am R/Ring and installing new Koni strut cartridges on my '83 Ur
> >> Quattro
> >> using stock springs.  I want to have parts on hand and went to
> >> order some
> >> strut bearings.  My local dealer informed me the bearings were
> >> unique for
> >> this application and were $167 each and in limited supply.  Ouch!
> >> He said
> >> they were different from the 4000 quattro bearings which are under
> >> $30
> > each.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> So - what is so special about these UrQ strut bearings?  Can I
> > substitute?.
> >> Is there another version that will work fine?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Anyone have a set?  Any suggestions?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Ben
> >>
> >> benswann at comcast.net
> >>
> >> 83 urq, /[][] =oooo= [][]\ alpine and Inga
> >>
> >> '90 Coupe Quattro (==\ oooo /==) ES2 Conversion
> >>
> >> 91 200qa20v, [ =!\=oooo=/!= ] avant and sedan
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