Wanting to replace the factory rear lower control arm bushings with Del a Lum bushings but can not locate a source, any help or recommendations
Thanks

 

You wont find them and for good reason. They will bind badly in the rear

 

Thanks for the information, poly bushing would be a choice.

 

Poly busings in the trailing arms can bind and create issues as well. They're better than the nylon bushing though. I had poly bushings for years but once i added power w sticky tires, pulling around corners w power induced wheel hop. It wasn't an issue in a straight line w power, just turning. They would bind just enough. I ended up w roto joints. And that solved all the issues. But they transmit a little more road noise.

 

The rear CAs in these cars are about as substantial as well-cooked pasta. You can bend em in your hands. (well, at least, I can, and I'm SSSSSSSOOOOOOOPER strong; yerbasic classic 6'1" 150 lb string bean) The bushings you put into those stamped tinfoil POSs are irrelevant, since the CAs themselves have roughly the strength of ... oh, let's say ... well-cooked pasta.

All this CRAP about "bind" and all that, is just that: CRAP. As long as those saran-wrap piddly dinky things are in there, NO "bushings" are EVER gonna make any difference, EVEN IF you could somehow replace them without DESTROYING the sheet-metal flimsiness that you'd have to press them out of and back into without DESTROYING them. You could supplicate the gods of the hearth and by worshipping them dutifully until they reveal to you the pure unvarnished unadulterated unmodified artifacts forged from the purest unobtanium alloyed with only the tiniest trace of irreplacium and hammered into the finest platonic forms by the 10,000 yr old gnomes in the firiest furnaces of Hell itself, and lovingly and reverently install those into your factory stamped RUBBER CAs with all the proper supplications and holy chants and other dutiful rites and sacraments, and you wouldn't be able to tell ONE GODDAMN BIT of difference between those and the stock spoooooooojjje.

If you think replacing the rear CAs will be of benefit to you, just buy some, and be done with it. I put some Lakewoods https://www.holley.com/products/susp...ms/parts/20140 with poly bushings in my 83 sometime back in the mid 90s (late 1900s), and they seem fine to this day. Of course I DO grease em once every decade or 2 whether they seem to need it or not. OTOH if you're one of those gullible types that fall for the Global West BS about "binding" like some people have for all these years, butt NOBODY EVER seems to have experienced EVER, maybe Global West is still around to take your loosely available cash from you without really delivering much of anything that you can actually identify. Otherwise, use common sense.

 

Thanks Firechicken 82 the reply
Im in the process of building a autocross/ track day car, a1991 Camaro five speed car, wanting to sort chassis as best I can, using factory rear end for now, I have Koni yellow all around.
As far as the root joints they would be like what UMI has to offer.

 

I had the lakewood ones in my car for years. Even w LCA relocation brackets. I thought they were great initially. I specifically replaced them w umi adjustable/rotojoint ones. I measured my old lakewoods and set the adjustable ones to the same length and took it out for a rip, problem solved! No more wheel hop coming out of corners w power. Idk of the bushings were hard from age, they were 25 yrs old. They were solid when i removed them. I have all roto joints wide sticky nt01s and no wheel hop and awesome traction.

i will say every car is different and there isn't a one size fits all setup. Theres a lot of companies that have red shinny parts. IDK if they're necessary bit im guilty of having lots of that stuff. It works in my car.