You can find more information in our privacy policy. Please note that your settings might limit the functionalities that are available on this site. You can decide which cookie categories you want to allow. These include cookies that are necessary for site functionality, cookies used for anonymous statistical purposes and those needed for the integration of external content. The website uses cookies to allow for the best possible user experience. Other benefits of using Micro Cellular Polyurethane (MCU) are that it can be easily tuned and optimized by changing the material’s density and it easily conforms to the spring geometry to prevent dirt and grit from becoming trapped in contact with the spring. Vibracoustic offers multiple Micro Cellular Polyurethane (MCU), thermoplastic rubber, and thermoset rubber material options that have excellent noise isolation and durability characteristics depending on the application. Spring isolators can be supplied assembled to complete components like top mounts, jounce bumpers, or air springs, as well as being equipped with dust covers, bumpers or saturation cups. They are used to provide rolling noise isolation and prevent metal-to-metal contact between the spring and the strut or top mount. The so-called lower isolator is positioned between the coil spring and the spring seat on the strut, while the other is located between the coil spring and the top mount. If I dont, then I will order the springs from dearborn along with one isolator, measure that isolator for the polys, then send the isolator back to dearborn.In every strut suspension, two coil spring isolators are typically used. Im about to start playing banjo music on my lips! Im going to use the remaining time I have today to find some local. Dearborn wants $10 each for thier isolators. That doesnt really matter though, because I have to have isolators that match the springs I buy, then measure those to get the poly ones. BTW: Part number on my front isolators marked "Ford" C3AA-5415. They sell coils and Im sure they will sell isolators so I can get all of these measuremens I need off a new isolator, to match them up to Energy's stuff and get some polys. As for the isolator I found on summitracing with the Moog part number, I dont trust it, the measurements are just way to far away from each other. Sure enough, the dimensions are WAY different on the old islolator, I just measured. My thing is I dont know if I should really trust the old isolator due to stretch and wear, I would think the dimensions would be off. LOL, well I am in luck with the tearing down part, because I am doing that anyway. Unless you are racing, anyones springs will be good enough. I found AutoZone prices were 40% less than some of the other big parts stores. Once you find the MOOG springs you want front and rear, check around at different parts stores. Finally someone on this site told me that 65/65 mustangs used the same isolator and I found them next day at Dallas Mustang for $5 each.Īnother source of MOOG info, is the Federal Mogul web site, you have to click options to get to the MOOG catalog. I found the rears at many places, the fronts no where. If you can wait a day or two, I will look up the Ford numbers for you in my parts book. Original springs were tappered at the top end, most new springs will not be but they put a colored paint on the end that goes up, usually in the instuction with the springs. Rears take 2 per spring, fronts take 1 per spring. The fronts fit onto the top of the spring and have an upper and lower lip, nothing on the bottom because the spring end fits into the lower arm indention. On the rear the isolators fits over the spring towers (top and bottom) and look like those in the pictures. What do you all think?įront and rears are different. I figure I should go with the widest of the OD (4 1/2") just to be safe. All this info is necessary I believe, because I thought once I do take out the springs, the original rubber isolator's measurements would be off due to age and wear. I had no idea they were actually this small. This means the OD of the isolator is going to be anywhere from 3 1/2" to 4 1/8". So, using style A from the above energy suspension link and using the above posted shape of the isolators as a reference, I am to use part# 3.6110,9.6106, or 9.6118 from energy suspension to get poly isolators. Uses an isolator that has these dimensions, Moog AMGK62032 - Moog Coil Spring Isolators. According to summit the springs for my 65 Gal (country squire was the only way to narrow it down) COUNTRY SQUIRE, 1965, FORD. That narrows down the style I need to know. It looks like the flat surface that the spring contacts is the same thickness all around.
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