Anyone know where to get the suspension stops for the front upper control arms? One is missing and the other looks like a petrified mushroom.
Re: Front upper control are rubber suspension stops Nothing but good things to say about pst. IDK if they have what you need, but Id suggest you check them out. http://www.p-s-t.com/t-downloadcatelog.aspx
Yes, check out CARS.....they do have some repo Buick items no one else carries. While you're at it, shop around and pick up some catalogs from the 'other' suppliers.....Ames and Performance Years (Pontiac) and Ground Up (chev) at www.ss396.com , offer many items for our Buicks, and are great companies to deal with. I'm fairly certain they all have the bumpers you need.
I got my stops from ground up- along with other bolts and such. Lots of similar parts between chevelle and skylark
Re: Front upper control are rubber suspension stops Wow, that is a really cool website. Thanx Walt & Mike!
I've got several of them here in a box that I know I'll never use and can get them in the mail tomorrow morning if you want them. Anything else you can think of just let me know sometime today and I'll see if I have it.
Thanx Bill! But I just ordered a couple NOS stops from CARS yesterday. The only other thing that I can't find yet are some rubber boots for the upper control arm bushings. Mine are usable but they have started to swell.
I think I read in another thread when researching it that you converted to 67' upper control arms that use rubber bushings? Was this for cost reasons or to improve the ride and reduce vibration?
No, no specific reason for it. My original shafts appeared to be worn out and they squeaked. I had a nice set of upper later model control arms laying around so I used them. Being originally from the rust belt I have seen and worked on a lot of cars that have the suspension components pretty rust pitted so whenever I was at a swap meet and found nice stuff I would buy it. It didn't matter if I needed it at the time but it was nice to have whenever I did. My car has been a Florida car all it's life so I don't have that problem with it. I also won't put rusty stuff on it. I was at the Sumpter Co. Fairgrounds swap meet several years ago and bought the 12 bolt rearend for my car there. And I already had one at home but I was standing there looking at it in amazement that it was the cleanest rust free rearend housing I'd ever seen, and I mean ever. Anyway, it was only a 2.73 pegleg but it was complete drum to drum and when the guy said I could have it for $240, well, if you ask my wife that's probably the fastest she's ever seen me get my wallet out of my pocket :laugh:
Thanx George! At this point, I am going to stick with my factory uppers. I never really liked the design of having rubber bushings next to hot exhaust manifolds or headers. So, I will avoid the conversion as long as I can.
I'd bet the 64-65 metal bushing design was better anyway due to NO deflection. I'd guess GM did away with them due to cost/ maintenance / and possibly ride quality issues? Ford used the metal bushings on the intermediates back then, but they always ended up squeaking. The fix was to add grease fittings.
