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Slight Wobble after hitting small bumps or potholes.

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Old 10-05-2023, 12:14 PM
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Originally Posted by RJ_RS_SS_350
I guess you missed this part of pulp's suggestion. Those are stamped steel. HHRs have aluminum.

This is the aluminum LCA im guessing?

Would it be ok and possible to just swap the bushings? Because all the bushings i could find were the same price as the whole cheap LCA off amazon.

They are actually very pretty once they're cleaned up a bit


Whats the meaning of hese letters. This LCA was the original i had just recently taken off. And the other shiny one came from a tow yard
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Old 10-05-2023, 12:54 PM
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It is my understanding that the bushing will interchange, but have different surface treatments, and that the onse intentend for the steel arms will quickly corrode and seize into the aluminum arms. On the other hand, I see two other three different o.d.'s listed, but that could be typical misinfo. Do yours seem to be the same diameter?

If you do swap, try to seal things up to reduce galvanic corrosion.

You could try returning the steel ones, as they sold you the wrong parts. Their bushing might not last long, anyway. There's rubber and there's rubber.

There are some pretty inexpensive bushing out there that should be as least as good as the ones in the steels arms.

Don't know what the markings mean. SMW is the maker's mark, I surmise.

Rock auto has a ridiculous selection of these bushings, a couple on closeout, as cheap as $2.09/ea.
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Rear bushings are cheap, however you get what you pay for

https://www.rockauto.com/en/catalog/...m+bushing,7532
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