Re: [AMC-list] 68 Javelin upper control arm bushings

[wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

I don't know what you guys do to your cars when you put the poly. Bushings in and get a "harsh ride" but I can assure you my Americans ride is not "harsh". In fact it has a better ride than any of the other vehicles I drive. 
   Harsh is the last word I would say about mine!  
   Come go for a ride. 
I'll prove it on some of the crappiest roads in the nation!

My car has poly bushings Gabriel classic gas shocks. 205/60/15 tires up front. 

    I will admit that I did use Raamat sound deadener in it and add new carpet that really added to the comfort levels. 

   The in tank fuel pump mod was also a noise killer, again well worth the work. 

   By the time I get the good mods sorted out from the worthless ones I'll probably be to old to remember them. 

    Anyway, to poly bushings and harsh ride, I say "horsehockey" "B.S.".  I mean that in the kindest way. Not picking at all to each his own. 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:18:57 
To: <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [AMC-list] 68 Javelin upper control arm bushings

They fit 58+ big cars, but the 58-63 Americans have a much larger hole where they slip on those removable shafts rather than have bolts go through them. So you SOL for the American.

I don't use poly for the suspension bushings anyway -- too harsh a ride for me! I DO use them on the sway bar and sway bar end links, just not the control arms or strut rods -- except for the "half-n-half" method of using the newer two piece bushings on the old cars. Even those are pretty harsh when hitting a pot hole -- harsh enough that I cut my strut rods and welded threaded ends to them so I could run the new style factory bushings and adjust them properly.

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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 16:40:42 -0700
From: tom jennings<tomj@xxxxxxx>

Cheating aside -- I wonder if those poly bushings will work in the earlier
cars? 63 american, classic, 70 hornet, all look the same, plus or minus that
inner edge junk.

You don't have one laying around to measure? I have some old American and I
think Hornet jobbies to check against.

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Frank Swygert
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