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Offset rack bushings? Rack seals.

Putting in my lowering springs with all my new front end stuff. Should I use offset bushings or regular? Should get around 1.5 in drop. Not sure if Im doing this manual rack swap or not yet but I need to order these today. My spring isolators arent going to be here til Thursday so Im already going to be behind on time.


Also my manual rack is leaking where the shaft goes in. The seal was pushed out a little but even after pushing it back in it still leaks. Could I just replace that seal and call it a day?
1986 Cougar LS

Offset rack bushings? Rack seals.

Reply #1
If your going to go 1.5 lower it wouldn't hurt to use off set.
But it may or not be needed. It's not that big of a deal to add them anytime, once you see how everything lines up.
Old Grey Cat to this.88 Cat, 5.0 HO, CW mounts, mass air, CI custom cam, afr165's, Tmoss worked cobra intake, BBK shorty's,off road h pipe, magnaflow ex. T-5,spec stage 2 clutch, 8.8 373 TC trac loc, che ajustables with bullits on the rear. 11" brakes up front. +

Offset rack bushings? Rack seals.

Reply #2
Quote from: Maximum Motorsports
Why offset rack bushings are a bad idea for stock K-members

Although sold by many as a supposed cure for bumpsteer, installing offset steering rack bushings on a stock K-member make an acceptable situation far worse than if you had done nothing at all. How do we know this? Because we did testing. We measured the bumpsteer, both with and without offset rack bushings. Our test results were first published in the July 1993 issue of Super Ford. Find more information about bumpsteer and available kits.

Personally I would get a set of non-offset solid bushings.
2005 Subaru WRX STi|daily driver

 

Offset rack bushings? Rack seals.

Reply #3
Got my Energy offsets yesterday. Took Summit as long to ship them as it did the parts store to get my isolators in. Order my rack bushings at 12ish in the morning the day after the isolators.
1986 Cougar LS