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Subject:Re: creaking coming from under pass seat area
From:Stan Wilder
Date:Thu, 15 May 2003 09:27:16 -0700

I had been spraying mine with the Tire Shine that is used to make black
walls very shiny and black.
It worked good.
Give the rubber strut and control arm bushings a good spraying and take
it around the block a few times before it dries or all drips off.
Last about 1 month.

Stan Wilder

On Thu, 15 May 2003 09:51:33 -0400 David Brodbeck <gull@GULL.US> writes:
> On Thu, 15 May 2003, Stephen Overmyer wrote:
>
> > Try starting with routinely using a bit of lubricant (and I mean
> that in the
> > nicest possible way...)
>
> What's a "safe" lubricant to use on rubber bushings?  I have the
> usual
> control arm bushing creak, and I also have a squeaky shifter
> bushing
> that's driving me up the wall.
>
>
> David Brodbeck, N8SRE
> '82 Diesel Westfalia
> '94 Honda Civic Si
>
>

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