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 Post subject: Rear strut bushings
PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:02 am 
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Yeah so I I had to swap the metal sleeves from an AWD strut to my Koni yellows in order for them to fit on the AWD rear hubs obviously. So I had some blown KYB junk struts and I went ahead and pressed out the bushings/sleeve combo and was just gonna press them into the Konis but it seemed kinda ghetto. I figured I had two options for nice bushings: 1) call prothane and order a custom set or if they had something that might fit (but that was gonna take WAY too long probably), 2) make custom bushings. I yielded for the custom idea so I got some urethane resin material and went at it and here is how they turned out.

Here is the set with only one being cut to width on the left standing up.

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Here is one bushing almost finished, still some fitting left before the sleeve it fit into place but you get the idea. 2 piece bushing BTW.

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This is what it'll look like sitting in the strut.

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Here are the two konis with the bushings pressed into place and ready to rock-n-roll.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 2:19 am 
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Looks nice, where did you get the material? Any specs on it?

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:27 am 
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Very nice!

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:31 pm 
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Those are urethane wheels that are used on skateboards, they come in a pack of four. Any diameter will do, mine were 52mm, but they end up getting cut to proper diameter with a hole saw. One wheel was used for each 1/2 of the bushing.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:46 pm 
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haahahah.. thought that was a set of wheels.. :D nice!
looking good man.

oh, if anyone needs some wheels. can hook it up! sorry to hijack.


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:29 pm 
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Those are urethane wheels that are used on skateboards, they come in a pack of four. Any diameter will do, mine were 52mm, but they end up getting cut to proper diameter with a hole saw. One wheel was used for each 1/2 of the bushing.
I wondered how you got that nice rounded edge :P

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where did yoy get the rear struts and the rear spring?

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:58 pm 
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They were purchased through ajusa.com and dropped shipped via Koni headquarters in Europe, took about 4 weeks for delivery from time of payment. The springs come from behrents.com. They have any eibach you can imagine. 1000lbs 12" if you want them.

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