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Worst bushing ever

the poi

the poi

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Fellow sufferers of the 95+ 960 Front lower control arm rear bushing, I bring irrefutable data that that mother****er is the worst bushing ever.

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Nobody deserves this.

Behold my apparatus:

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Also- NEVER LOWER A 95+ 960. DO NOT DO IT. Also run stupid stiff springs. When the bushing angles off level, either from lowering or brake dive, the deflection curve gets even worse. Sticky tires, hard brake = 1.8* toe gain. lolwtf.

I'll make it all better though. It's cool.
 
Considering the fact that a Volvo 960 is a luxury car and those bushings were almost certainly designed primarily to improve NVH characteristics, not to give race-worthy characteristics on lowered cars, I'd say the bushings aren't as bad as you make them out to be. Now if you found these characteristics on bushings from a Gumpert Apollo, I'd be nodding with you, not disputing the validity of your interpretations of the results.
 
varg said:
Considering the fact that a Volvo 960 is a luxury car and those bushings were almost certainly designed primarily to improve NVH characteristics, not to give race-worthy characteristics on lowered cars, I'd say the bushings aren't as bad as you make them out to be. Now if you found these characteristics on bushings from a Gumpert Apollo, I'd be nodding with you, not disputing the validity of your interpretations of the results.
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uh, pretty sure that the intended utilization of a bushing doesn't affect its physical characteristics.

the characteristics that the little one has described are probably spot-on, but were well within the desired performance envelope for the disgusting floridamobile that is the 960.
 
Well, what's funny is, I used to put a different style of bushing in 960's.
Volvo at least used to sell an alternate bushing that was much less ****ty, believe it or not.

I bet Vadis still lists it, it's denoted as an "alternate service" part or something to that effect.
 
Captain Bondo said:
Well, what's funny is, I used to put a different style of bushing in 960's.
Volvo at least used to sell an alternate bushing that was much less ****ty, believe it or not.

I bet Vadis still lists it, it's denoted as an "alternate service" part or something to that effect.
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No way! How did the design differ?
 
I can't for the life of me find it, but I remember someone filling the gaps (or at least mentioning it) on these ****ers with 3M window weld? At the time it seemed pointless, but seeing this now makes me think maybe it's not such a bad idea?
 
the poi said:
No way! How did the design differ?
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If you'd get off your ass and install VADIS....

Dr Dokeh said:
I can't for the life of me find it, but I remember someone filling the gaps (or at least mentioning it) on these ****ers with 3M window weld? At the time it seemed pointless, but seeing this now makes me think maybe it's not such a bad idea?
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It falls out apparently.
 
Captain Bondo said:
Well, what's funny is, I used to put a different style of bushing in 960's.
Volvo at least used to sell an alternate bushing that was much less ****ty, believe it or not.

I bet Vadis still lists it, it's denoted as an "alternate service" part or something to that effect.
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Its still there.
 
buzz said:
Its still there.
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There pictures? Part number?


Re: window weld--that was me! It doesn't work, as mentioned aboved, it just squirts out. The reason why there's a huge hole in the bushing in the first place is because it needs to flex a lot with control arm movement.
 
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