Make your own.  Pick up a bar of Delrin at your local plastics house,
find a machinist and an hour later you got your bushings. (Urethane is
good, Delrin is better! Delrin is self lubricating.)

Heck, I got a lathe, send me the dimensions and I'll make up a handful
of them.

Jim

Kevin Dawson wrote:
> Hi all,
> I need to replace my upper control arm bushes and I think I remember reading
> that someone on the list had replaced theirs with some aftermarket urethane
> bushes.  I love urethane.  I've found anti-sway bushes, tie rod and ball
> joint replacement bootees in urethane.  Does anyone on the list know of other
> Vanagon parts that can be had in urethane?  How about the upper control arm
> bushes?  I'm not a big fan of "metalastic"  as the OEM upper inner bushes are
> constructed.  On my British car I've found that a lot of the repo parts with
> rubber from Taiwan just don't hold up worth a dam.  The high ozone we have
> here in Southern California makes poor quality rubber go away in short time.
> Urethane holds up and is often less or the same cost as OEM.  I don't like to
> do a job more often than I can get away with.
> Please email me at Calwolfie@aol.com
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin Dawson
> 87' 1/2 Camper
> 74 1/2 TR-6
>
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