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Okay, so I'm installing my rear TAB bushings with my new homemade TAB tool ala Art Benstein (Thanks, Art!) and after I got the first one installed and am ready to reinstall the trailing arm I realize that the metal bushing sleeve is about 3/4" in dia. and my bolt is somewhere around 1/2" leaving a lot of slop. The bushings that I'm installing are Whiteline Plus (formerly Noltec). I looked at the old bushing sleeve that I pulled out (orig. Volvo, I assume) and it's the same diameter except that about 1/4" inside each end of the sleeve there are 3 evenly spaced bumps at say 12, 4, and 8 o'clock positions. These bumps portrude inward about 1/16". Because of these bumps they make up a lot of the difference in diameter between the bolt size and the inside diameter. Now, of course as I said the Whitelines are the same diameter as the originals except they don't have the bumps. So, do you all think I should install larger diameter bolts or what. If I don't then I'm afraid that it's going to wear prematurely. Has anyone here run into this? Any ideas? Thanks, Charles
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