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Burning out the bushing harmful to metal housing?
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Posted by 94 9000 CSE T (more from 94 9000 CSE T) on Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:44:23 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: Sounds like you're OK, then., BillJ, Mon, 27 Aug 2001 16:21:12
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>>> These two little pieces of plastic transformed the car for £9.20 (US$13).

Based on this experience, would you suppose that increasing the thickness of the sway bar (e.g., SAS 1" sway bar kit, $295 for front and rear) would probably have very little additional benefit, probably mainly psychological benefit, not to mention extremely low benefit-to-cost ratio?

>>> I've now received the front bushes...but I think I'll be disappointed with the understeer I'll get back when I install them.

SAS web site says that "the rear sway bar reduces understeer; the front sway bar reduces...oversteer". If so, is reducing oversteer (the tendency of the REAR wheels to break loose, as I understand it) equivalent to re-introducing understeer (of the FRONT wheels), as your statement seems to be presuming? I would have thought not...

>>> I took your advice and burned the rear bushes out of their housings

Now you are talking about the front suspension rear lower control arm bushing, not the rear sway bar bushing which is secured by a U-clamp, right. Will any size or temperature of blowtorch flame do? Unless one already has a blowtorch, would it probably be cheaper to just pay a shop to press the old bushing out? Might the blowtorch method be harmful to the metal housing? Change its strength-of-materials properties, maybe make it more likely to shatter under load, or some such bad consequence?


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