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Bushing walk on C5 lower front arm. PU bushings already on.

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Old 10-06-2014, 02:54 PM
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Default Bushing walk on C5 lower front arm. PU bushings already on.

I searched for bushing walk issues but I only found threads concerning upper A-arms in front.

I had that problem earlier and I swapped all bushings to polyurethane ones and made a zerk fitting to all of them. Now the upper A-arms stay where they should but the problem seems to be in lower A-arm front bushing. Both front ones have moved back towards the cradle after one track day.

Here is a pic of right side front bushing:



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Old 10-06-2014, 03:07 PM
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Who's bushings are those? Something looks to be wrong with the bushing design or the install. My Pfadts have a flange on both side of the arm and cannot move at all when installed.
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These are Prothane bushings.

There is a flange but it's inside the A-arm hole now
Old 10-06-2014, 03:31 PM
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My stock rubber ones (year 2000) did the same thing, but those have a small "flange" on the rear section of the bushing and a much larger one at the front. I removed them and flipped them around to stop that from happening again. Will know after a few dozen autocross runs if it works or not.
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Simple, the bushing material isn't strong enough to resist the forces it is seeing during high G load maneuvers. You should be proud, you put some serious loads into that thing! Delrin should work much better, or a higher durometer polyurethane at least.

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