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Re: wrecked upper control arm bushing
Posted by Hans (more from Hans) on Sun, 8 Jul 2007 11:56:32
In Reply to: wrecked upper control arm bushing, vvack0matic
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, Sun, 8 Jul 2007 11:18:25
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The bushing dies due to exhaust heat; your driver-side bushings are most likely just fine.
The failure mode from ignoring repair is a broken mount (they're aluminum), not the a-arm. Meanwhile, prior to breaking the mount, the bad bushing also affects the wheel's toe setting, so you will wreck the tire, too, if you ignore the repair.
You can fix replace the bushing without too much trouble unless you have to battle rust between the bushing sleeve and the a-arm; search here for more info. A new bushing is a couple dollars (change both).
No one could predict the mount's failure, but the prudent owner would probably attend to it fairly soon: assuming it's the forward-most bushing, the only silver lining in an accident is that the car will almost certainly pull extremely hard to the *right* when the mount snaps, so, if in traffic, you'd side-swipe someone, not head-on into someone.
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