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A-arm bushing material?????????
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Posted by: honda1988

I am making bushing for a set of a-arms and i dont know what kind of material to use? Plastic or a metal. What kind of plastic is used or what kind of metal, what is best?

Posted by: 1trik88

i made some bushings out of UHMW and used ASTM1008 steel for the sleeves!!!
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Bryan

Posted by: pdxbigfoot

Delrin round stock on a wood lathe. Do a yellow page search for plastics. I dont have any pics right now....good luck ...Jason

Posted by: RichM1983

quote:
Originally posted by pdxbigfoot
Delrin round stock on a wood lathe. Do a yellow page search for plastics. I dont have any pics right now....good luck ...Jason

Cant you use delrin without a metal sleeve? Or am I wrong? Either way that stuff is the way to go. Its really durable.

Posted by: pdxbigfoot

I ended up using steel sleeves though. I have Delrin swinger bushings as well and they dont use a sleeve just pivot bolt to bushing.....plus you will never have a frozen pivot bolt again or have to chisel out the bearing races.....J

Posted by: GOTFEAR

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Originally posted by honda1988
I am making bushing for a set of a-arms and i dont know what kind of material to use? Plastic or a metal. What kind of plastic is used or what kind of metal, what is best?

nice! good job.

Posted by: skyhighatv

Hey pdx, do you know where i can get a set of them delrin swinger bushings? anybody know?

Posted by: honda380

hey, you guys think a chain roller made of that delrin would work properly? i run my rear shock on the soft side and go through them easily. with one of these i would imagine its worry free, what do ya think?

Posted by: pdxbigfoot

Find the sellers screen name in "My E-Bay" but it was quite awhile ago so i wasent able to pull it up. I belive that he is here on the forum. I also did a search on E-Bay and he has nothing posted. He told me that the 86/87 bushings go fast and he pretty much makes them to order or does small production runs. Keep you eyes on E-Bay as ive noticed he pops up once a month or so....sorry i couldnt get his seller nick.....Good luck....J

Posted by: Aceman

He goes by x.system on here and I believe he's on r-centra*l too. Haven't seen him post in ages though...

That is probably his ebay handle as well.

Posted by: 86 Quad R

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Originally posted by skyhighatv
Hey pdx, do you know where i can get a set of them delrin swinger bushings? anybody know?

ever tried the helm?

Posted by: 250rbadboy

his e bay name is x.system they were $25 shipped.