Front End Rebuild vs. After Market K-Frame

IMHO, I would stay away from poly or polygraphite bushings for your rebuild kit. I went from a recently rebuilt rubber front end to a polygraphite front end and there was no appreciable improvement in the handling or degradation in the ride for that matter. BUT, within a few weeks I picked up a very embarrassing squeak in the front end that was bad enough to casue me to tear the front end apart and go back to rubber.

I believe the folks that report great improvements with the poly front end bushings are folks that go from a tapped out rubber front end to the poly and have not compared new to new. The other down side of poly it will not last nearly as long as rubber. In a rubber bushing there is no sliding motion the motion comes from the twisting of the rubber. Going to poly you have the bushing shells sliding on the poly material. There are no seals on these bushings so in wet weather all sorts of road junk can get into the bushing and grind them away.