Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 11:31 pm
Thanks, learn something new every day, as they say.
You can see them pretty clearly in the shop manual diagrams. Unless the actual cars just had bushes, I'm pretty sure the SZ had heims.
There's a ball joint at the front of the dedion...why not everywhere else then??
On my AE86, I have heim's on both ends of my pan-hard rod, and it transmits very little road noise. It might be OK on a Milano too, but I would put a poly on the chassis mounts of the watt's linkage, and heim joints at the actual watt's pivot. I think I'd be able to get no groaning from twisting poly bushes (annoying in my car), and less noise transmitted to the cabin than heims mounted to the chassis pick ups.
You can see them pretty clearly in the shop manual diagrams. Unless the actual cars just had bushes, I'm pretty sure the SZ had heims.
There's a ball joint at the front of the dedion...why not everywhere else then??
On my AE86, I have heim's on both ends of my pan-hard rod, and it transmits very little road noise. It might be OK on a Milano too, but I would put a poly on the chassis mounts of the watt's linkage, and heim joints at the actual watt's pivot. I think I'd be able to get no groaning from twisting poly bushes (annoying in my car), and less noise transmitted to the cabin than heims mounted to the chassis pick ups.