Giving the Bushing The Grease

[LostInTransit]

For the last few days the energy suspension red sway bar bushing have been squeaking. That makes 6 months without any squeaking till now.. time to re-grease the bushings. Not willing to goto the shop to have them take everything off and grease these bushings.. according to suspension.com I can use a grease syringe to inject areas around the bushings. This will have to be done when I get a comfortable weekend out of the one car garage.. I'll prob end up cleaning the engine, cleaning the wheels and grease the bushings.

 

[alcyon]

Its not difficult to remove sway bar bushings. Might as well remove and re grease. I use Super Lube.

 

[LostInTransit]

10/4 already got the grease.

 

[Asterix]

Energy's own silicone grease is the goop to use. It's super sticky and as water resistant as you can get. It's likely just 2 bolts per bushing, so very easy to take off one at a time.

 

[Bailey28]

My experience with using polyurethane bushings on cars is this: The bushings are great at the start and make a difference in handling you can feel. However within a year or two they start to develop cracks and then totally fall apart.

I have experienced this with sway bar end links, stabilizer bar mounts, and an engine mount all on different vehicles I own. All of them dry rotted and cracked within a year or two even after using the supplied grease.

I went back to the stock replacement rubber bushings and no problems.

 

[Jetronic]

I used Wynn's ceramic paste on assembly, and didn't suffer creaks. I used it because we had a kg of it and it was of no other use.

 

[Dave9]

When you have a choice, get Energy Suspension's black bushings instead of red. They have carbon black coloring them and it slightly lubes them.

I also experienced squeak from some non-black poly bushings, and it comes and goes, usually comes in cold weather but didn't come back last winter so YMMV. Some people tap the bracket, put a grease zerk on and put a corresponding hole in the bushing so they can lube them after the fact, using silicone paste lube which is what the ES lube is. I just don't use enough silicone paste to justify tying up a grease gun with it.

I have not had any fall apart.

 

[Bailey28]

I was hearing a clunking sound on my Veloster and I recalled replacing the lower engine mount with a poly bushing. Under the car I could pick away at the bushing with my fingers chipping it to pieces with no effort, it was literally crumbling. Its not near the exhaust either, no salt in FL lol. Lesson learned.