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Subject:Re: Can a Manual Steering Rack Fail Internally?
From:Max Wellhouse
Date:Sat, 16 Apr 2011 02:28:55 -0500

I emailed Loogy about his urethane bushings and his stuff is a new
compound that wears like urethane, but has some give to it so you're
not vibrated to death like a race application.  When the cash comes,
I'll be buying his set up for sure  Front control arm sleeves are
stainless steel!! and he offers rear control arm bushings too.

DM&FS

At 11:09 PM 4/15/2011, Andrew Martin wrote:
>Christopher at T3 Technique sells the PowerFlex line for a bit more but with
>shipping.
>
>http://www.t3technique.com/powerflex-bushings.html
>
>I don't know if Christopher is on this list but he's a huge contributor on
>the Samba and the Vanagon community in general.
>
>Andrew
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
>Robert Ueltzen
>Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 7:57 PM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Can a Manual Steering Rack Fail Internally?
>
>Powerflex has bushings for our Vanagons:
>http://store.powerflexusa.com/volkswagen-vanagon-1980---1992-urethane-bushin
>gs-p1188.aspx
>
>On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Alan Felder <dieseldoofus@gmail.com> wrote:
> > They can go to as much as 1/4" play at the end bushing.  Mine was that
>bad,
> > till I replaced it.  Wished that I could find a source for replacement
> > bushings because otherwise, the rack was fine.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> --
> >> Alan Felder
> >> Austin TX
> >> 82 Diesel Westy
> >>
> >