I bought a hard race complete kit for my Eg some months back and have just gotten around to putting the bushing in and I came across something that I was wondering if any one else ran into.

Everything on the kit was installing fine, but when i got to the the right hand rear control arm and the toe links I ran into a problem.

The right hand rear control arm outer bushings, the one the bolts to the rear sub-frame and the one that bolts to the trailing arm, had about .009" clearance. I thought that the bores were out of round in my LCA but the bores were within .001" of each other. This means that the bushings were actually about .012-.014" too small depending on the amount of press that hard race requires.

The toe links had just the opposite. After micing the bores, taking into account that they are tappered, the bushings had about .040" press on them. Once again assuming that hard race uses .003-.005" press then these were around .035" too big.

I was wondering if anyone else has run into this before?

I am talking to the people that I got the kit from and they are trying to work it out/get me some replacements.

 

What was the solution for you? I ran into the same problem with my set...

 

i gave my rear toe bushings to a friend of mine, HEh.. I just bought some hardrace adjustables, they even told me they have hardrace bushings so i was satisfied. Nothing wrong yet.. i've had about 15k miles of abuse