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someone please tell me why a person would use plastic king pin bushings?

I just dissassembled my king pins and there were plastic bushings, not metal ones in there. It came apart easy enough, so I'm thinking they wern't done too long ago, but they were sloppy.

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Sure they aren't nylon? Nylon is sometimes used help stop corrosion, noise and vibrations. If put together properly they will last for a long time.
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all the above+ try and find a shop to do them for u--nobody from any type of truck,automotive or front end shops will even talk about them in my part of the world
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that's just wrong. seem to me any auto machine shop would be able to do it. It seems like too much work to do it very often with the plastic bushings.

thanks for the thoughts, it was baffeling me! :eek:

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I got about 3000 miles from the ONLY set of plastic kingpin bushings I ever installed.

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what??


long story about a college applicant

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after being ask the question "what is what?" on 3 successive applications and being denied college entrance, he was at the lake with gf and her skirt blowed(southern 4 blew) up in the breeze--he saw her panties--omg--he asked her "what is that"

her reply"what is what?"

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"if i knew the answer to that i'd be a jr at a&m"


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