Exactly!  I was gonna say that! Looking at earlier VW suspension recently.
Raised my eyebrow on that one.
Michael in San Antonio
91GL AT 'Gringo'
73 Beetle

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Allan Streib <streib@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:

> Kingpins?
>
>
> On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:35 -0400, "Don Hanson" <dhanson@GORGE.NET> wrote:
> > Hey, I just spent some quality time with my spray lube and hit all the
> > suspension bushings, kingpins, shift linkage and parking brake stuff
> > under my '84.  What a difference that makes.  The van now steers
> > wonderfully and shifts 'slicker than deer guts on a door knob..'  I
> > used Wurth saBesto HHS 2000, a professional high temp sticky lube. Now
> > someone will probably say..."Oh don't do that, it'll eat the bushings"
> > or something, but I've done this occaiaionally a few times per year
> > for a couple of years now with no adverse effects.  While I was under,
> > I checked the spare tire pressure and did a general visual inspection
> > of the fuel lines, etc.  And I lubed all the moving stuff inside and
> > around the body of the van, too.  Give your van a treat and it'll
> > reward you by behaving very nicely, indeed.  Don Hanson
> >
>