Craig Healy wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
-> I want to keep this car on the road...
-> Right now I've got a brake hose that I need to put in,  but the major
-> I'm looking at is some bushings,  that apparently are part of what
-> holds a sub-frame to the body -- it's a Dodge Monaco.
-> Auto parts stores have all sorts of other bushings,  but not these.
 CH> 
 CH> What do the bushings look like?  Just rubber doughnuts?
Apparently there's an upper and a lower part,  I haven't taken it apart yet 
because I need to drive this car to work every day.  I don't know if there 
are metal inserts in there or not.  The guy at the dealer seemed to think 
that I oughta replace all four sets,  which would mean that I'd be putting 
(80+14)*4 $ into the car,  way too much.
When I had the front wheel off on saturday to put the brake hose on I looked 
at the front and rear ones on the driver's side and they look pretty 
different,  though the guy at the dealer seems to think that they're the 
same. I don't know how much of this apparent difference is due to distortion 
in the rubber because they're tightened differently or whatever.
 CH> If so, then a trip to a machinery supply house may be fruitful. 
 CH> There are quite a few varieties of machine vibration damping 
 CH> mounts that might have a similar durometer (hardness) to work 
 CH> for you.  Could they be made up from pieces of tire sidewall 
 CH> cut and laminated together? 
I dunno,  they're *awfully* thick.  In the case of the one that's half-gone, 
I can stick my fingers in there with room to spare.
 CH> How about truck cab mounts?  Maybe a truck parts place has some 
 CH> "universal" biscuit-type mounts you could use...
Maybe.  I'm going to have to look around some more and see what I can find in 
this area,  I guess.
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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