Re: Front Suspension Mod's

["tmpintnl" <tobyp@xxxx>]

David - You are absolutely correct in your observations. This is why 
I changed the sway bar bushings to urethane - both at the crumple tube 
attachments, and where the sway bar attaches to the lower control arm. 
The high loads transmitted through the sway bar cause the lower 
control arms and the sway bar itself to move around quite a bit during 
hard cornering and heavy braking - especially with the relatively soft 
rubber stock bushings. The flexing of the lower control arm becomes 
the next issue in line after the sway bar attachment is attended to. 
As an aside, the rear bushings at the sway bar/control arm attachment 
should be examined at our earliest convenience. Mine were in very bad 
shape, with the rubber "doughnut" peeled away from the steel sleeve, 
and cracked in several places. My car has about 75K miles. This 
condition caused erratic directional control during braking, and a 
gradual toe-out condition that made the steering very sensitive, and 
increased tire wear. The inspection is fairly simple, and replacement 
stock bushings are cheap (if you want to replace with stock).

Toby Peterson VIN 2248
Winged1

--- In dmcnews@xxxx, "jtrealtywebspannet" <jtrealty@xxxx> wrote:
> After seeing my post up on the DML I realized I mispoke (mistyped) 
> when I said under braking the wheels want to move foward. What I 
meant 
> is that the BODY of the car wants to move foward of the wheels which 
> means the wheels want to move rearward. The sway bar provides a 
> restraining force to hold the wheel in the correct position. Just 
> another force to keep in mind that gets trasfered to the crumple 
> tubes which is probably why they had a recall on it to beef up where 
> it attaches to spread out the forces.
> David Teitelbaum
> vin 10751