Where's the best place to buy a-arm bushings for my 72. I believe I would like urethane or poly-graphite if they make them. Thanks, Carter
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100% of the Pantera parts vendors (including PI Motorsports, that hosts this page) sell stock neoprene or aftermarket urethane bushings as a kit. Adding asymmetric-flange urethane bushings to the front end is a cheap way of gaining 1 extra degree of caster for better high speed handling, basically free. Removing the old bushings approaches an engine swap in terms of sheer miserable labor. The stock bushings have crimped-on washers that are larger than the a-arm holes, so you can't use a press until one of the end-washers are cut or knocked off. Even then, it is absurdly easy to bend or distort the mild-steel a-arms with a press while pushing the old steel-jacketed rubber ones out. And there are 16 of them to change... Fred Terry wrote a comprehensive article on this job in the POCA newsletter (April 2000- 'Bushing Pushing')
I just replaced my a-arm bushings with urethane/graghite ones from Pantera East. They have stainless sleaves and run $14.00 ea. They also come with a silicon gel pack with each pair.
HAS ANYBODY EVER THOUGHT OF MACHINING THEIR OWN MOLDS, AND CASTING THEIR OWN URETHANE FORMULA AROUND STAINLESS SLEAVES? THERE REALLY ISN'T ANY "SECRET" ABOUT IT. THEN ONE COULD CAST MILLIONS OF BUSHINGS FOR 25 CENTS EACH! JUST MHI, MARLIN.
A-arm bushings for sale in the parts section.