JEEPERF CONTROL ARM BUSHINGS JeePerf CONTROL ARM Bushings Re-engineered for Control, Comfort And Responsive Steering If your vehicle is suffering from early tire wear, handling problems, or loud noises under the chassis, you could be dealing with worn control arm bushings. Designed to attach the steering knuckle and wheel assembly to the vehicle, your control arms are a crucial part of your steering system. The bushings themselves absorb impacts from the road, smoothing and quieting out your ride. The material used to absorb impact and vibrations in OEM bushings is rubber which had served the automotive industry for well over 80 years. With age, however, rubber loses its natural oils due to the elements, causing it to harden up, dry rot, crack and sag under the weight of the vehicle. It will lose its ability to absorb impacts and vibrations, and it will sag throwing off your suspension geometry and wheel alignment. When this happens, you start hearing more of the road noises, feeling more of its impact, losing your ability to steer the vehicle as was intended and wear out your front tires. LONG-TERM PERFORMANCE At JeePerf, we build each bushing to exceed OE specifications by a great margin. Using modern materials and novel design techniques, we build our bushings for longevity, comfort, low to no maintenance requirements, precise steering and perfect fit. While the OE bushings might sag or rot away with time, our control arm bushings will have a very long service life. Why use jeePerf bushings? We build our bushings to achieve special design targets. They need to have a precise fit, very long, reliable service life, steady, non-degradable performance throughout their service life, and to have better value than OEM offerings. For control arms, they also need to provide an unimpeded, smooth, non-binding, fluid motion that is also comfortable to live with on a daily basis. In order to achieve that we decided to: - Use softer, specially treated, permanently lubricated Polyurethane to dampen road noise and provide a quiet, comfortable yet very well controlled ride. Our soft polyurethane compound is proprietarily treated to provide ride qualities similar to NEW rubber in comfort, yet have the famous long service life of polyurethane. - Use a fully floating bushing design so it will maintain a fluid, resistance free, full range of motion. An added benefit to our design technique is you will never have ro worry about cutting up a seized bolt again. Bolts can fuse themselves up to the metal bushings due to heat generated by friction between the bolt and the metal surface of the bushing. This happens with OEM style rubber bushings. Our floating bushings generate no friction at all and bolts don't seize up because of that. - Use chromoly alloy for crush pins and spacers to provide extremely solid engagement to the vehicle yet hard enough not to fuse itself to the mounting bolt that made replacing the bushing in the past a tough and expensive exercise. With this design we are able to achieve more flexing and more load handling capacity than OEM, while maintaining low NVH, and long service life at the same time. We strongly believe that using our front LCA bushings is a great upgrade to your front LCA that will give you the best road handling, daily driver, on/off-road handling possible. You now might be asking, if this design is so good, why doesn't my LCA OEM bushings come from the manufacturer this way? The simple answer to this is COST. These bushings are expensive to produce. Very high end vehicle manufacturers do use novel designs as OEM when pure performance is their end goal, since the bushings cost gets absorbed into how much they sell their vehicles for (think Ferraris, Porsches, BMWs, race prepared vehicles, ...etc.). We believe our bushings are the ultimate upgrade to an otherwise average, OEM bushings and we invite you to consider them as a long life, high end upgrade to your OEM like alternatives. We believe we achieved our design goals with these bushings and believe you will be impressed with the results. We spared no expense designing and building these bushings which are hand built using the very best materials available. Built by enthusiasts, for enthusiasts, we invite you to consider them when you want to Replace, IMPROVE and UPGRADE your front LCA.
05-10 Jeep WK/XK Front LCA Front Split Bushings (2) in Soft Poly (>=K200181)
JeePerf CONTROL ARM Bushings Re-engineered for Control, Comfort And Responsive Steering
If your vehicle is suffering from early tire wear, handling issues, or loud noises under the chassis, you could be dealing with worn out control arm bushings. Designed to attach the steering knuckle and wheel assembly to the vehicle, your control arms are a crucial part of your steering system. The bushings absorb impacts from the road, smoothing and quieting out your ride.The material used to absorb impact and vibrations in OEM bushings is rubber which served the automotive industry well for over 80 years. With age rubber loses its natural oils due to environmental elements, causing it to harden up, dry rot, crack and sag under the weight of the vehicle. It will lose its ability to absorb impacts and vibrations, and it will sag throwing off your suspension geometry and wheel alignment. When this happens, you start hearing more of the road noises, feeling more of its impacts, losing your ability to steer the vehicle as was intended and wear out your front tires.
LONG-TERM PERFORMANCE
At JeePerf, we build each bushing to far exceed OE specifications by a great margin. Using space age materials, we build our bushings for longevity, comfort, low/no maintenance, precise steering and perfect fit. While the OE bushings might sag or rot away over time, our control arm bushings will have a very long service life.
Why use jeeperf bushings?
We build our bushings to achieve special design targets. They need to have a precise fit, very long, reliable service life and a steady, non-degradable performance throughout their (long) service life, and to have better value than OEM offerings. In order to achieve that we decided to:
- Use soft, specially treated, permanently lubricated Polyurethane to provide a quiet, comfortable yet very well controlled ride. Our polyurethane compound is proprietary treated to provide qualities similar to rubber, yet have the famous long service life of polyurethane.
- Use a fully floating bushing design so it will maintain a fluid, resistance free, full range of motion. Think of our bushings as a bearing with vibrations dampening capabilities.
- Use chromoly crush pins to provide solid attachement to the vehicle.
- Use a solid lubricant to maintain a smooth, quiet, fluid, bearing like motion of the bushing without the need of frequent lubrication.
- Use a better crush pin washer design compared to OEM for a more solid attachment to the vehicle and to hold front end alignment for longer time.
We believe we achieved our design goals with these bushings and are confident you will be impressed with the results. We spared no expense designing and building these bushings. Hand built using the very best materials, by enthusiasts, for enthusiasts, we invite you to consider them when ready to UPGRADE your LCA.