If they are squeaking, is there any degraded performance or risk of damage 
to other components?  Or is the squeaking just an annoying part of wear?

later,
porter_fred%pax9@mr.nawcad.navy.mil
relax and spin
87 syncro
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|From: "vanagon@lenti.med.umn.edu"@PMDF@PAXMB1
|To: porter fred; "vanagon@lenti.med.umn.edu"@PMDF@PAXMB1
|Subject: Re: Front Suspension Squeek
|Date: Monday, March 25, 1996 9:36PM
|
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|Suspension squeks up front usually caused by Upper control arm bushings.
| These are available aftermarket and the bentley manual gives good
|instructions on instalation.  You need to tack weld them on non Syncros to
|secure them to the arm.  Note that the eccentric washers are actually shims
|and come in three sizes.  If there is a gap when putting the arm back in, 
you
|will nedd to get thicker shims.  Do not force arm back in place or use the
|mounting bolt to pull the arm together.  This will cause the new bushings 
to
|fail again.  I found the many vans are not shimmed correctly to begin with 
so
|order shims before taking van apart.
|Dennis.
|