Re: Subframe and control arms...

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <37017ABA.CAC674C9@snet.net> Bob writes:

> > We've just had another instance of crazy Audi prices - ur-quattro
> > front control arms (wishbones) complete with bushes for GBP50 - $86.

> That isnt bad at all. But again, why get the whole arm when all you need
> is the bushings? Or at $86 is it just not worth getting $30 worth of
> bushings and paying to get them installed...?

Next time round I'm just going to swap the arms.  Then the next time
I visit my friendly (and extremely cheap) engineering shop he can push
the old ones out of the old arms and press some new ones in for next
time.  An end to struggling.

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 Phil Payne
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