front and rear suspension

[xxslow50xx]

what can i do for suspensoin upgrades? do they sell poly bushings for the cvs? do upper and lower control arms from a mustang work? also what suspension parts are interchangable from cv to cv years? thanks

[boXman]

did you even look at the stickies?????

[Archangel]

Oh man... there are poly bushings, regular bushings, tubular upper control arms, like 50 balljoints, at least two spindles, at least three brake calipers, and only god knows how many springs (lowering, lifting, soft, stiff, what not) and shocks... what do you wanna do?

[mrltd]

did you even look at the stickies?????

Thanks Jeremy! Couldn't have said it better myself!

[xxslow50xx]

wow tubular control arms where can i get those from? i all ready have all the pi stuff but i want it to handle better with poly bushings everywhere,where can i get the poly bushings i couldnt find them

[mrltd]

*sigh*

http://www.grandmarq.net/vb/showthread.php?t=4073

http://www.grandmarq.net/vb/showthread.php?t=13987

rear bushings should be the same as 92-97 application.


PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE try doing a search and do some reading.

[xxslow50xx]

i was looking i was looking for a little bit more but thanks, i noticed that it says the poly bushings that are listed are only for civilian model is there a difference between the pi bushings?

[Nathan in MI]

PI bushings are metal. You'll have to get civilian control arms in order to use poly bushings.

[gadget73]

On early models they are metal, yes. Those bushings are also made from Unobtanium and no longer avail from Ford. Later models used a different upper control arm. Police models have two large bushings, while civvie models got one large and one small. Thats really about the only difference.

[xxslow50xx]

can the metal bushings go bad?

[gadget73]

yes. Mostly from lack of lubrication over the years. There are grease fittings in the upper control arm shafts but half the time they're ignored so the bushings wear out. If you use those, you're pretty much stuck with stock parts though. No brake upgrade since you cant replace the upper arm.

[xxslow50xx]

so i could go with poly bushings if i went with the 98-02 brake set up in the front. can the whole front end go on my cv uppers lowers and spindle just a stright bolt on?

[Archangel]

Do you have a box-body? IIRC you'll need to reuse the shafts for the upper control arms, but everything else will work, yes. You may need to swap the swaybars too, but I'm not so sure about that one.

[mrltd]

Do not need to swap swaybars with the 98-02 brake swap.

[gadget73]

You *can* swap the bars, but its not necessary. There may be clearance problems using the newer style bars. Old ones work perfectly with no modifications.

RE: poly parts, yes, you can use them on the 98-02 front suspension, or I think you can get a kit for the stock suspension parts too but you keep the wimpy brakes with that.