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Old 09-30-2005, 01:00 PM
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Would the car benefit from increased handling if I upgraded the rear rubber swaybar bushings to polyurethane?
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I suggest you upgrade to 1LE black rubber for the center bushings; poly squeaks like hell especially in cold weather. For the endlinks, poly is fine. These bushings will only make a slight improvement over stock.
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I can second that, the poly bushing are really squeaking my sway bars.
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thats why you buy the greasable ones and keep them lubed.
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They are greasable, and they are lubed, and they are still squeaky.

...but thats also because they are brand new (two days). They still need to be retightened now that I think about it...

Good thing I remembered.

Yeah, it isn't really a bad squeaky though, kinda like when you dog chews on a squeaky toy. Though it's not really audible over the regular Camaro squeak that we all have. Unless of course your car doesn't squeak.




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