Best place to order caster arm busings?
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Best place to order caster arm busings?
Hey guys I've read countless post on how to replace the bushings and ball joints but can't seem to find any good links and/or vendors that offer the bushings. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Where have you all ordered the parts from? Also, does anyone sell the entire caster arm with a new busing already in place. If so that would save me time on going and having the old and new ones pressed in / out since I don't have my own press. I'm at 238,000 miles on my 98 GS400 and I need to address this in a bad way before the worst happens. Thanks in advance.
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You can get the polyurethane bushings from Sewell Lexus parts website or the whole arm as well. Make sure you register with them that you are a CL member to get your discount. The other place you can get just the aftermarket rubber bushing is through Roca USA. They only sell the caster and lower control arm bushing as a set tho. I just ordered the polyurethane ones and will be doing that when I get back to Dallas for spring break. Which part of TX are you from?
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You can get the polyurethane bushings from Sewell Lexus parts website or the whole arm as well. Make sure you register with them that you are a CL member to get your discount. The other place you can get just the aftermarket rubber bushing is through Roca USA. They only sell the caster and lower control arm bushing as a set tho. I just ordered the polyurethane ones and will be doing that when I get back to Dallas for spring break. Which part of TX are you from?
1998-2000 model older/thinner arms use this one
http://shopfigs.com/v1/index.php?rou...product_id=122
and
the 2001+ bigger/thicker arms use this one
http://shopfigs.com/v1/index.php?rou...product_id=139
here is a DIY for both
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sus...-bushings.html
ALSO if he looked in the stickies on the suspension subsection of the forum this is in there
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sus...s-of-pics.html
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^^I'm interested, but where is the engineering data proving that this has been stressed tested based on the load of the car? I'm sure he should have designes that has been signed off for approval. I'm looking on their site and I don't see it. I'm a engineer by trade, so I know how critical this information is for new products hitting the market.
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I have the Sewell poly caster arm bushings. They are fine, but if I were to do it again I would probably just buy replacement OEM arms with bushings already pressed in from Sewell.
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^^I'm interested, but where is the engineering data proving that this has been stressed tested based on the load of the car? I'm sure he should have designes that has been signed off for approval. I'm looking on their site and I don't see it. I'm a engineer by trade, so I know how critical this information is for new products hitting the market.
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^^I'm interested, but where is the engineering data proving that this has been stressed tested based on the load of the car? I'm sure he should have designes that has been signed off for approval. I'm looking on their site and I don't see it. I'm a engineer by trade, so I know how critical this information is for new products hitting the market.
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I ended up getting the arms with the bushings already in. Got them from Sewell Parts. Installing tomorrow. Now I can press some bushings into my old arms and have a set of spares if I ever need to.
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