Lightfoot
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- fort collins co
Alright, not looking to start a debate on the quality of rough country parts, but I can't say im too happy with them. My lift is not even two years old, and all 4 of my LCA bushings are shot. My jeep has seen about 2 miles of off road time since then, and about 10k in road miles. I emailed RC and they wanted 40$ plus shipping for a new set. Price isn't too bad, but it was going to take at least a week, and I figured the new ones would fall apart as fast as the old ones.
so I pulled up this guy:
http://www.pirate4x4.com/tech/billavista/PDFs/Moog_rubber_bushing_cross_reference.pdf
and did a little searching. What I came up with was k8277, for a 79 mustang 2.3 turbo. Autozone makes a duralast verion of this bushing for 10$ a piece, so I took the two they had and ordered two more. The bushing ended up being a bit smaller than I expected, so when removing the original bushing, I left in the outer casing, and scraped out all the rubber. With the old bushing outer casing acting as a sleeve, I was able to snugly press in the new bushings. I then had to narrow down the bolt sleeve about .25 to get it to fit between the LCA mounts, and everything went back together nicely.
The sleeve over the bolts is about .1 larger than the original bushings, so make sure to torque down the LCA bolts so nothing moves around.
I only did the worse of the two sides, and already my wobble is gone.
So to clarify, this is for the fixed LCA arms from Rough country 0-4.5" of lift, I believe. The OD of the RC bushings was 2", and the arm is 2.25" wide.
The Autozone number is FB417
so I pulled up this guy:
http://www.pirate4x4.com/tech/billavista/PDFs/Moog_rubber_bushing_cross_reference.pdf
and did a little searching. What I came up with was k8277, for a 79 mustang 2.3 turbo. Autozone makes a duralast verion of this bushing for 10$ a piece, so I took the two they had and ordered two more. The bushing ended up being a bit smaller than I expected, so when removing the original bushing, I left in the outer casing, and scraped out all the rubber. With the old bushing outer casing acting as a sleeve, I was able to snugly press in the new bushings. I then had to narrow down the bolt sleeve about .25 to get it to fit between the LCA mounts, and everything went back together nicely.
The sleeve over the bolts is about .1 larger than the original bushings, so make sure to torque down the LCA bolts so nothing moves around.
I only did the worse of the two sides, and already my wobble is gone.
So to clarify, this is for the fixed LCA arms from Rough country 0-4.5" of lift, I believe. The OD of the RC bushings was 2", and the arm is 2.25" wide.
The Autozone number is FB417
