{"id":61,"date":"2007-11-10T14:57:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T19:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trolltuner.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2007-11-10T14:57:36","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T19:57:36","slug":"steering-rod-bushings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trolltuner.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Steering Rod Bushings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trolltuner.com\/img\/IMG_1440.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.trolltuner.com\/img\/IMG_1440.html','popup','width=400,height=266,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trolltuner.com\/img\/IMG_1440-thumb-100x66.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"66\" alt=\"ArmBushings.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/span>After seeing quite a few cars with excessive wear on the inner bushings I decided it was time to work on a replacement. The factory bushings are only available with the arms $$$..   Well a few hours in the machine shop and a little urethane later i had some decent prototypes to try.<br \/>\nI decided to install them in my Viggen since it has about 20K miles no wear was expected.  I found a decent about of wear on the factory bushings which was a little amazing in this short time.  I would guess that many of the higher mileage cars are far worse.<br \/>\nThe actual install was pretty easy took a leisurely 30 min.  Basic hand tools.  I used a long 10mm bolt and a 34mm 1\/2&#8243; drive socket to pull the old bushings from the arms.  This is probably not necessary for the higher mileage cars.   Installation was very easy once the old ones were out.  I did it with the car on the ground making it a little harder than necessary. It took a helper to get the arms aligned and the bolts into the steering gear.  Used a little thread locker there too just as a precaution.<br \/>\nInitial feelings are improved on center feel and less of the mushy steering response.  I will see after the road trip to StLouis tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing quite a few cars with excessive wear on the inner bushings I decided it was time to work on a replacement. The factory bushings are only available with the arms $$$.. Well a few hours in the machine shop and a little urethane later i had some decent prototypes to try. I decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viggen","category-chassis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trolltuner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trolltuner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trolltuner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trolltuner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trolltuner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/trolltuner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trolltuner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trolltuner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trolltuner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}