George, Siple has always used teflon lined rod ends for his control arms. He supplies them with or without the rod ends, so I suspect the control arms on your Pantera were supplied without rod ends. I have Siple's full suspension on my Pantera and with teflon lined rod ends, I suffer from none of the road noise transmission and harshness that you're describing.
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