I am about to replace the radius arm bushings for the second time on my '91. At about 91,000 I used NAPA poly bushings, and they are needing replacement at about 140,000.
Any experience with the replacement rubber bushings vs Ford OEM bushings?
And I also remember reading something about using bushings from a Bronco. Any first hand experience there?
Thanks John Normile
When I used NAPA bushings, the poly ones too, they were shot and making a terrible racket in less then 10K miles. Last time I replaced em I just bought the OEM from Ford. They seemed to be missing a spacer but I reused a spacer from the NAPA ones. What I like about the OEM is that it's just really firm rubber but it is rubbery so when you tighten the whole thing down it will expand slightly to wedge itself against the sides of the hole it goes thru. I recall a post years ago about some bronco part too and the ones I got from Ford 6 months ago looked a lot like the ones that were on my sisters old Bronco 15 years ago so maybe that's what Ford is selling now as the part. The ones I got had a brownish color. And they were cheaper then NAPAs.
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