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11-23-2008, 12:40 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
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Where are teh HD dogbones?
I have been going through these dogbones every 6 months at the local autoparts.
Some company out there must be making something that will last a few years?
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11-23-2008, 03:04 PM
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Your Sofa Kingdom
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: South Florida
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Are you breaking them, or is the rubber wearing? You can replace the rubber bushings with poly.
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1990 Firebird 3.1
T04E 46 trim turbo, Front mount intercooler,
38mm Wastegate, 1.6 roller rockers
Dynomax cat-back, 24# injectors, HKS BOV
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11-23-2008, 05:47 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ForcedFirebird
Are you breaking them, or is the rubber wearing? You can replace the rubber bushings with poly.
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the black rubber inside is broken or moves too much.
where do you get the poly replacements? I definiely will need poly if they do not give out.
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11-23-2008, 07:22 PM
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Your Sofa Kingdom
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: South Florida
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Energy suspension. Measure the hole in the dogbone and match up what they got.
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1990 Firebird 3.1
T04E 46 trim turbo, Front mount intercooler,
38mm Wastegate, 1.6 roller rockers
Dynomax cat-back, 24# injectors, HKS BOV
Click here to see a pictoral
3.4/3500 hybrid under construction
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11-23-2008, 07:29 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 163
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ForcedFirebird
Energy suspension. Measure the hole in the dogbone and match up what they got.
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the hole of the dogbone is not completely though.
there is a flange in the middle.
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11-23-2008, 08:21 PM
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Your Sofa Kingdom
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: South Florida
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cutlass supreme FE3
the hole of the dogbone is not completely though.
there is a flange in the middle.
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That's OK. Take the rubber out, and you should be able to find a similar bushing.
We made some tranny dog bones a while back at the shop, Issac Hayes designed them and they used energy poly inserts...
http://s158.photobucket.com/albums/t...Strut%20Mount/
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1990 Firebird 3.1
T04E 46 trim turbo, Front mount intercooler,
38mm Wastegate, 1.6 roller rockers
Dynomax cat-back, 24# injectors, HKS BOV
Click here to see a pictoral
3.4/3500 hybrid under construction
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11-25-2008, 11:15 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 163
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rubber bushings are just too soft
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11-25-2008, 12:26 PM
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Has too many hobbies.
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Missouri
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My dogbones are actually for the engine, not trans.
But yeah go to www.energysuspension.com and check out the universal flange bushings. Measure and I'm sure you can find something. If the cast aluminum breaks from the poly, then you could probably find steel dogbones from another similar car maybe newer model. I know the later models had steel front dog bones.
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1994 3100 BERETTA. 200,000+ miles
16.0 1/4 mile when stock. Now ???
Original L82 Longblock with LA1, LX9, LX5 parts
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12-01-2008, 09:25 PM
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Right aorta
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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I had my shop make one out of a 1/2 x 1-1/2 x 2 piece of steel bar welded between two chromoly bushings. My engine does not move.
I got the bushings from a 4x4 shop. They're not cheap thoughI paid $33 for the two of them, but got the steel from scrap and had one of the welders do it on the side real quick.
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1989 Chevy Celebrity wagon, 189-MFI swapped from '92 Cavalier, 100k miles, pretty much everything new but the transmission...
18.4 @ 70 mph on skinny 185s with my wife and 3/4 tank of fuel
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12-02-2008, 10:23 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 163
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If you do not have to replace them every again then i say it was a well spent 33 dollars
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