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Old Jul 7, 2025 | 06:10 PM
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Got it apart. Apparently was redone 20 years ago with bad urethane stuff -not a spec of filler remaining. The installation looks like it would've been fine if the urethane hadn't failed.
Now waiting for FedEx.
Will upload some photos if I can figure it out.
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Old Jul 7, 2025 | 06:11 PM
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Old Jul 7, 2025 | 06:28 PM
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Yikes - that looks like it was definitely the problem unless there was some sort of a magnetic levitation/repelling action going on there to keep the TA properly floating on air around the bolt
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Old Jul 7, 2025 | 08:41 PM
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Poly bushings in TA was a mistake 20 years ago yet 100's were sold. I had a set of Offset arms shipped to me that were never installed on a car. The sat unused for years, the poly crumbled away at the touch. The only poly bushings I saw last were semi-poly, if that is a thing. They were what Tom's used and were never brittle.
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Old Jul 7, 2025 | 09:00 PM
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Now I'm beginning to doubt every bushing in the car. It's funny how so many of us got suckered into polyurethane, when the old original rubber had lasted 30 years!
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Old Jul 7, 2025 | 09:25 PM
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Aw shucks...bubba said just add a little mo' toe-in!
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Old Jul 8, 2025 | 08:07 AM
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Anyone still sell steel bushings like Dick Guldstrand used to sell?
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