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Old Sep 21, 2009 | 11:41 PM
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LCAs with zerk fittings?

When I put my adjustable tubular LCAs, the "stock" LCAs I took off, had zerk fittings on the bushings. I've never seen ones like that before.

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Old Sep 22, 2009 | 12:12 AM
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Re: LCAs with zerk fittings?

pics? sounds like someone drilled, tapped and put a fittting on them?
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Old Sep 22, 2009 | 12:49 PM
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Re: LCAs with zerk fittings?

The brass look of the bushing housings, suggests that they are aftermarket, but I've never seen one with zerk fittings on them.

My 89 GTA didn't have then, but my 87 does. Had it been the other way around, I might have suspected that they were just improved in the later years.
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Old Sep 22, 2009 | 04:36 PM
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Re: LCAs with zerk fittings?

most likely aftermarket bushings
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Old Sep 22, 2009 | 05:12 PM
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Re: LCAs with zerk fittings?

Those are not factory bushings. See the extra rubber ring on the one side, at the bottom of the 1st+3rd pics? Those are energy suspension poly bushings. Either someone added the zerk, or bought them from one of the places that sold them with a zerk fitting.
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Old Sep 22, 2009 | 05:23 PM
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Re: LCAs with zerk fittings?

agree with both posts above
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