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Originally Posted by Army
Yee ha! Great stuff! Discussion!
Does it do? Or does it don't?
Has anyone tried to move the suspension with the parts torqued without a spring in place to see?
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When you torque the Control Arms with the Wheels on the Ground you are setting them in a neutral position; there is no bending of the Rubber Bushings in either direction. So it starts off with no sort of a pre-load in either up or down directions.
If as an example I torqued the Upper and Lower Control Arms with the Wheels hanging down and no support under the Control Arms; Springs decompressas as far as they can go still connected to the Suspension. When I drop the Car down on the Wheels the Rubber Bushings are going to already stressed in an upwards direction all of the time the weight of the car is on them and even more so when the Wheel move upwards hitting a bump.
I think that is going to shorten the life of the Bushings because in the example given the Bushing is already sort of pre-stretched with the weight of the Car and it has to stretch even further when a Bump is hit.
In the pic of the one of my old Lower Control Bushings you can see where the solid rubber sheered in two.