Been there, done that, hated it. Went back to rubber.
Larry Miller
----- Original Message -----
From: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
To: Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott <toobmany@bigpond.com>
Cc: Spridget List <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: 02 April, 1999 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: Suspension bushes
> Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott wrote:
> >
> > No flames intended but it's time for my two bob's worth again. I've
been
> > competing and daily driving in Sprites for more than twenty years and
used
> > to use nylon bushes but have reverted to the standard metalastic type.
In
> > my experience nylon gives sharper feel but also makes the car less
> > directionally stable and wears out the bearing surface in the wishbone
> > which was not designed to be a bearing surface. Sprite wishbones (and
> > trunnions) were designed so the bush 'stuck' to the wishbone and the
> > suspension deflection was taken up in the twist of the bush. For this
> > reason rubber grease shouldn't be used in assembly, if anything a smear
of
> > dishwashing liquid can be used. All the bushes in a Sprite front end
> > should also have crush tubes on the inner bores.
> >
> > Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott
> > Melbourne Australia
> > toobmany@bigpond.com
>
> I agree totally.
> I also tried Urethane (plastic, nylon, whatever you want to call them)
> bushings.
> The ride was hard, the handling was twitchy, but those colors were cool!
> I reverted back to stock metalastic (rubber to us US guys)and I have my
> Sprite back the way it is supposed to be.
> I also have been driving a Sprite for 27 years.
> Plastic bushings would be great on the track but not on the road. (my
> opinion)
> --
> Frank Clarici
> Toms River, NJ
> Bugeye Sprite
> 67 Sprite
> 59 A40
> http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut/
>
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