I see where there is a bunch of chatter about A arm bushings and such on the 'other' forum.. My .02 cents... There are some very poor repop rubber bushings out there..the metal shells are so thin that they deform when you 'press' them in the A arms. You can almost press them in by hand... Needless to say they spin in the A arms and sooner or later will murder the arms. The GOOD ones have 'silentbloc' on the rubber and that is easily readable. As far as the Delrin ones...Studebaker used SOLID A arm busings for years as did many other manufacturers. The cracked frames seen on many Studes are from a weak design that was corrected in later cars by adding a reinforcement and addressed in the manuals and mentioned by one of the guys on the forum although most seemed to ignore his post. I seriously doubt that Delrin bushings caused any kind of cracks. BTW, the Delrin ones out there are not perfect; they need 'tweaking' and proper spacing to work right and I have had several that had to be turned down a touch to get the proper press fit in the arms. Also, I have seen many shafts that were damaged beyond use and when using EITHER bushing the shafts should be in good shape and the end bolts torqued properly with the car on the ground under load. Studebaker George
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