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Old 05-25-2018, 05:28 PM
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For those of you that have spherical bearings in your suspension control arms, what are you replacing them with when they get loose?

I installed sphericals in my control arms a while back and now they sound like you are dropping a box of bolts on the floor at every little bump. I figure that the ones that came in the package were probably not the best of quality so I'm looking to replace them with a higher quality bearing.

I have seen some vendors saying that the use the Aurora Race series bearings. Anyone have experience with these?
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Originally Posted by fmcokc
For those of you that have spherical bearings in your suspension control arms, what are you replacing them with when they get loose?

I installed sphericals in my control arms a while back and now they sound like you are dropping a box of bolts on the floor at every little bump. I figure that the ones that came in the package were probably not the best of quality so I'm looking to replace them with a higher quality bearing.

I have seen some vendors saying that the use the Aurora Race series bearings. Anyone have experience with these?
Check with AMT, they use the best bearings available!
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Aurora makes very high quality bearings. They have a couple different ranges with differing strength level and to my knowledge they are made in The States.

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Originally Posted by fmcokc
For those of you that have spherical bearings in your suspension control arms, what are you replacing them with when they get loose?

I installed sphericals in my control arms a while back and now they sound like you are dropping a box of bolts on the floor at every little bump. I figure that the ones that came in the package were probably not the best of quality so I'm looking to replace them with a higher quality bearing.

I have seen some vendors saying that the use the Aurora Race series bearings. Anyone have experience with these?

We use a Radial RWT-10 in our stuff. Don’t think it gets much better than that. My cost is $18.50 each and I buy 160 at a time. Don’t think you can buy them unless you have an account with them however. I gaurantee these bearings for 5 Years in our control arms, though I expect them to last much longer than that.

However since I don’t think you can buy those, the FK Wide series is also quite good, and is what is actually installed in my car. I used them for the prototype set before I discovered Radial. I’ve had them in for 4 years with no issues.

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