Polyurethane control arm bushings

Syleng1 said

lol! Poly bushings are noisy. They may last longer than the factory bushings - 50 years on my last set of bushing (66 Barracuda)from the factory I guess is not good enough. Sorry OP. I don’t mean to take away from your question. I understand wanting to not do this again but the Moog style factory replacements have lasted 20+ years in my Demon. The factory set lasted 30+ and I only replaced them because the front end could not be aligned due to frozen cams in the bushings. Either way- they needed attention. Sorry again to taking this in a different direction from your original question. I’m about to get lambasted- so sit back and enjoy. lol!

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Poly bushings are only noisy if you installed them incorrectly or don’t properly maintain them. Period.

Poly bushings require lubrication, because they rotate on the pivot pins. If they dry out they squeak, and the friction that's causing that noise will wear them out prematurely. So if your poly bushings are noisy, they need to be lubricated. Simple as that. It's no different than a ball joint or a tie rod end, if you run them dry they'll wear out and fail.

And absolutely nothing you buy from Moog today will last as long as the factory stuff did, if it even fits. A good amount of things you buy from Moog today won’t even fit because their quality control is so poor.

Moog LCA bushings don’t fit…

LCA pin loose in bushing