Sway bar bushings help!

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Re: Sway bar bushings help!

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Yeah that poly one actually looks like it will work, they do have that 30 mm listing and the shape is right. Price will probably be comparable, I think the OEM's were ~$7 each. I guess I hadn't really thought about going w/ poly for any reason other than I couldn't find replacements, it was mentioned earlier that the poly ones need to be lubed? I do keep on my maintenance but why add extra things unnecessarily. I understand that they are stiffer and lend to better handling, but she's a 4,260 pound FWD sedan and I don't road race so I think the added maintenance factor along w/ a basically moot performance point is kind of making me lean towards just getting the OEM replacements. That being my thoughts on it, what do you guys think?
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Re: Sway bar bushings help!

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I would go with the poly. regardless of having to grease them.

but you have to factor the bolt spacing, not just the diameter of the bar.
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Re: Sway bar bushings help!

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Wes wrote:I would go with the poly. regardless of having to grease them.

but you have to factor the bolt spacing, not just the diameter of the bar.
Well that's not really an issue, I can make it work, worst comes to worst its not that hard of a bracket to make my own of
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