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" V8 Rustler" (handschaltgetriebe6) 01/05/2015 at 09:03 • Filed to: None

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Poly bushings installed.

CalzoneGolem >  V8 Rustler 01/05/2015 at 09:10

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Squeak squeak!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > CalzoneGolem 01/05/2015 at 09:19

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Poly want a cracker? Or possibly a shutting up?

I've got a set of new bushings for the front of the Ranchero, and went with mixed poly and rubber. Poly on the sway bar and track rods, rubber on the lower control arm. Partly dictated by what I could get at reasonable prices, but rubber on the lower arm should keep down The Squeakings a bit.

crowmolly > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/05/2015 at 09:27

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Get a tube of the white Super Lube and drill zerk fittings if you can.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > crowmolly 01/05/2015 at 09:30

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Shit, man, I've been taking apart the Jag rear, and there are zerks EVERYWHERE. It comes from putting all the swing action on roller bearings. My favorite is the one in the outer hub carrier that fills the control arm bearings to a point, then vomits grease into the end of the control arm. WTF? On the 'Stang/Falcon greasing, you're saying drill the track rod, or the LCAs? I'm guessing this is a secret anti-Ford squeak procedure I haven't heard of.

crowmolly > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/05/2015 at 09:33

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http://www.thirdgen.org/forums/suspens…

Kind of like this. You modify the bushing to allow grease to the pin.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > crowmolly 01/05/2015 at 09:53

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Got it. I'll do that with the sway bar bushings. The sway bar drop links and the track rods only rotate a little bit - they're more of a socket type thing, so a little passive grease on assembly should be all I need.

I've also got a Shelby drop planned for the front, because obviously. On the topic of greasing, that will make it impossible to use the holes that some mook tore in the front of the shock tower to grease the UCA, so I'll weld that up. Apparently he decided right-angle grease fittings were "for fags".

crowmolly > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/05/2015 at 11:06

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Yeah, some "worm tunnels" can help the grease get where it needs to be.

UGH on the drilled holes. Reminds me of the Liquid Nails seam sealer I had to deal with.

Side note, I am pretty sure this is the grease I use:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00…

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > crowmolly 01/05/2015 at 11:26

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How I wish the zerk access holes in the shock towers were drilled. No, they were torched through, with edges peeled extra with pliers. A similar clown-shoe approach was taken with my radio hole, too, with splitting and peeling - what an ass-face one of the previous owners was...

wabbalosthiskey > crowmolly 01/05/2015 at 11:26

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And this is why we modify cars, so one day's "upgrade" install turns into weeks of chasing the problems associated with said upgrade :P

 V8 Rustler > CalzoneGolem 01/09/2015 at 23:05

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Not really. The first day I used the car it was raining heavily, and the car got very wet from underside because some parts of the city got a little flooded. Been using the car since and there are no squeaks. I used a lot of grease.

CalzoneGolem >  V8 Rustler 01/12/2015 at 08:15

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There you go. Gotta grease it up good!