Re: IML: 1967 imperial suspension

[Elijah Scott <imperial1971@xxxxxxxxx>]

ajl <alacaria@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   I found a pitman arm at Autozone for $115.00. They could not get an  idler arm but sold me a bushing kit. They told me that unless it is  bent the bushing kit would take care of it.
The bushing kit will replace the bushings where the idler arm bolts to the frame.
  
  Unfortunately, idler arms usually wear at the ball & socket  connection where the idler arm bolts to the center link.  That's  why you have to replace the idler arm.
  
  You can have the idler arm rebuilt (Rare Parts -- http://www.rareparts.com/ is one place that will do this), but it's not cheap.
  
  The ball & socket joint of the idler arm is a press fit  joint.  The ball part lives between a couple of rubber bushings in  there, and after the rubber degrades, you get a sloppy joint.  I'm 
 pretty much convinced that if one could find a source for the rubber  bushings, it ought to be relatively cheap and easy to use a shop press  to replace them.  But I've never actually done this, and I may be  way off base in my thinking.
  
  Good luck,
  
  Elijah

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