I replaced my radius arm bushings with Polybush Blue a couple years and about 5000 miles ago. Now, these bushings had been sitting on a shelf, in their box, in my workshop for several years before - I don't remember when I bought them, but I bought them new, and if I had to guess I'd say six years ago. Anyway, my 110 had set for a month or so recently while I tracked down an electrical issue (still not sure I fixed it but the problem is no longer there), so I took it out to go to town and run some errands, probably 25 miles in total. While going through a curvy section, my steering didn't feel right. When I hopped on a 65 MPH road and let off or pressed the accelerator, there was a definite pull. By the time I got home, there were clunks, knocks, and pulls galore. As I opened the door to the workshop where my 110 is normally parked, I saw blue crumbles where I had been parked. After pulling off the radius arms, here's most of what was left on the left side along with the tubes from the right side:
The frame mount bushings and one of the axle set bushings on the right side were completely gone, and not much was left of the remaining right side axle bushing.
I don't know if this is normal or I just got a bad batch, but I went back to the rubber bushings. Would having two summers with months of 100+ degree days do this?
Now I've got to get an alignment - I'm getting a death wobble, and I've never had one of those before. Hopefully an aligment will fix it.
The frame mount bushings and one of the axle set bushings on the right side were completely gone, and not much was left of the remaining right side axle bushing.
I don't know if this is normal or I just got a bad batch, but I went back to the rubber bushings. Would having two summers with months of 100+ degree days do this?
Now I've got to get an alignment - I'm getting a death wobble, and I've never had one of those before. Hopefully an aligment will fix it.