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Originally Posted by aztecred92
I'm not speaking out because of ego. I'm speaking up from my personal experience. 98sr20ve's observations have lead him to think differently. That's his experience and it has been shared by others. No where do I deny that.
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You don't even have to believe what I say. All you need to do is take the rear wheel off the car an look at the rear suspension and what the direction of travel of the two lower links and the forward link want to do. You can visualize the binding that is going to occur if you stiffen up all the links. I guess I get in the same argument with people over suspension travel. "Sure lowering springs/gc set low/etc work great with AGX's". Then I go challenge people to just measure how much actual travel they have. They never do because they don't want to know that they made a mistake. They would rather live in denial. I also talk with people all the time about suspension stuff. They tell me privately that "I made a mistake by purchasing X" but on the forum total silence about that product. No one wants to admit they made a mistake when the purchase/do something. Every notice everyone loves every new mod that comes out? BTW, I never said to not use ES stuff. I said it's just not worth the hassel on a DD. If you do use it don't use all of them and make sure you grease them all the time. Hence my suggestion of putting on grease fittings. That is also a PITA but once done is a real hassel saver. BTW, my front ES bushings are soo bad on the 240 that if I tighten down the bolt holding on my lower control arm to tightly I can feel the car start binding. Too loose and I can feel the toe changes at the wheel during braking. Most people notice the suspension getting stiffer and they think it's better. "You know, stiffer is better". Everyone knows that

. If thats the case then how come a totally metal sperical bearing car can ride better then a full ES setup. It's all in the reduction of binding. Binding ES bushings actually "Feel" like extra spring rate in the back of the car to some people.
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Originally Posted by Greghowardbell
Shawn,
Did you put NEW factory bushings in? I presume you did since you at the ESbs? How expesive were the new factory bushings?
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Nope, I am replacing them with sperical.