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Subject:Re: sway bar bushings
From:Don Hanson
Date:Tue, 4 Aug 2009 16:10:15 -0700

Make em.  You can get Delrin or corian or any kinda plastic you need on the
net and just make what you need.  That plastic is workable with regular
tools...sanders, drills etc.  Google Tap Plastics...one place I have sourced
some slippery plastic stuff for my race car in the past.
  Don Hanson

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:41 PM, dylan friedman <insyncro@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Suspension Techniques
> I get ones that are as close to the right size and tweek to fit.
> About $7 a piece if you buy quanity.
>
> dylan
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> ________________________________
> From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 6:24:07 PM
> Subject: Re: sway bar bushings
>
> then you'd want to upgrade to urethane anti-sway bar bushings.....
> if your goal is to have as much anti-roll as you can out of your stock
> front
> anti-sway bar,
> and to replace the now-soft and pretty warn original anti-sway bar rubber
> bushings.  Urethane bushings,
>
> the red ones ......if you can find them.  That would be the way to go.
> If I had handy access to some, and they were not too expensive, I'd make
> that a standard replacement item on the vans I refurbish.
>
> adjustable anti-sway bars would be the real right way to go if fitting
> aftermarket ones. If anyone makes such a thing.
> Scott
> www.turbovans.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Warren Lail" <wklail@GMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 3:08 PM
> Subject: sway bar bushings
>
>
> > I've notices some discussion about sway bars recently.  I assume that
> > both the Addco and Empi (and others) will improve handling.  However,
> > I wonder how much handling could be improved if we just replaced the
> > bushings on the existing front sway bar.  My bushings seem to look
> > okay, but they're old and probably worn.  They look to be fairly easy
> > to replace.  Has anyone done this, and does it appreciably improve
> > handling?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Warren in Santa Fe
> > 88 Westy "Billy Bones"
>
>