Redoing my front suspension and part of my steering in my 70 next month I've placed two orders from rock auto so far. Here's what I have MOOG: Upper ball joints LCA/w ball joints Strut rod bushings Inner tierods Outter tierods Tierod Adjustment sleeves CALVERT 90/10 shocks. I decided after I made my first purchase that I want to buy the MOOG UCA assembly. so the ball joints I have are useless. I also want to replace my spring perches and debating buying new set of MOOG coils since they're less than $60. I'm leaving the sway bar alone for now because I plan on upgrading it soon. Questions? comments? concerns? Anything I should add?
Two upgrades on my wish list the next my front suspension gets some attention are roller spring perches and pivoting strut rods .... both pricey, but they would take most of the bind out. http://opentrackerracing.com/product/roller-spring-perches/ http://www.rosehillperformanceparts.com/
The strut rods are under a pretty good load. Not knowing about the issues with poly bushings and strut rods not working well, I snapped a strut rod. Luckily it was low speed going over a speed bump. Ripped the steering wheel out of my grip. Would have been ugly at any kind of speed .... would have pulled me head on into traffic going the other way. Lucky that day! My point is if a side load can snap one merely because I replaced a rubber bushing with a stiffer one, maybe it should have been made to move freely in the first place.
That's worth keeping an eye on... I bought the moog replacement rubbers. so hopefully I'll be good. I think the only poly bushings I have are on my sway bars
Poly is fine anywhere else in the front end. I used polygraphites, the whole kit, from PST and they have been quiet. Noise is a common complaint with some brands.
