theclutch
Go Kart Newbie
Stock (original actually) shocks and springs. The bar with the wonky bushing is an 034 with poly bushings, and 034 spherical endlinks. I do autocross 2 or 3 times per month. I’ve been checking it every time I get home from an event and everything looks fine. This one broke yesterday when I was driving to pick up lunch. Last week I had to take the mount off and put the bushing back in because it had come out, but not broken. Also, the bottom bolt on my passenger side endlink is constantly coming loose. I’ve tried Loctite with an impact wrench and it still came loose. Next I think I’m going to look at locking washer options.
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Wow... this is odd. I'm also running completely originally shocks. So what you are saying is that the black bushing somehow wiggles its way out of the pretty high strength billet aluminum brackets and then breaks (rips) as a result? I assume that it wiggles out since the bottom bolt, as you say, had come undone?
If that bolt keeps coming out, I'm afraid that the issue may be is that you stripped the nut that's welded onto the frame... thank God that I was the one that installed my own sway bar. I can only imagine that I avoided paying a brute-force-and-ignorance mechanic from forcing it and stripping it out. I found that it's easy to cross thread these bolts. Mine (although Neuspeed and not O34) has not come out and I even put major anti-seize on it. I do track my car.
I hope this isn't what happened to your setup? If the bolt is not stripped, then I assume it's wiggling itself out since there's not enough grease in it causing binding vs the bar spinning freely?