Spring Bushings
I had replaced the plastic bushings with a wet bolt kit. The bushings supplied appear to be oilite material. Oilite has a granular structure and will break easily. The photos are of bushings with a...
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Lynnmor wrote:
I had replaced the plastic bushings with a wet bolt kit. The bushings supplied appear to be oilite material. Oilite has a granular structure and will break easily. The photos are of bushings with a few thousand miles on them. A spring broke and when I replaced both springs on that axle the bushings were all cracked. Spring eyes are not very round (none are) and that is probably the main reason for the cracking. If I ever replace bushings again, I'll choose a better brass, bronze or aluminum bronze to make my own.
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Was it a Dexter wet bolt kit? Would like to put wet bolts on my TT suspension. Only improvement I can make since the trailer has the wide set axles and Dexter doesn't make an EZ Flex equalizer for that axle configuration.
