[Richard]

In conclusion:

Unbelievable thanks to Bill Johnson for finding the part. I had spent over a hundred hours looking for this part. I talked to Henderson’s, Josams, Prevost, Newell, DANA, and several aftermarket producers of suspension bushings, and no one could produce a part for restoring this front end. Bill did. My appreciation is immense, and his contribution to future rebuilds of the front end is incredible.

Many thanks to Bill and Russ for helping me. This would have been even harder trying to work by myself.

I have an appointment with Josams for alignment. I am confident to set the toe, but the camber needs adjustment and it needs to be within 0.25 of a degree. I am not confident to do that.

I will report back on driving behavior after alignment.

Afterthought: one might ask if I had any early warning signs the bushings were close to failure. Yes I did. One, I had seen rubber exuding around the straddle beam in the bushing. Duh huh. That was obvious. The sign that was not obvious was a deep metallic thump somewhere in the front under the seats. I never could figure that out, until the bushing completely failed, and the thunk went away. In hindsight, that was the internal part of the bushing rattling against the outside part of the bushing. Once it completely failed, it was metal to metal and stopped rattling. There was not a noticeable difference in the way the coach handled on the freeway

Sorry for War and Peace. This and the tryptophan from the turkey should make for a good nap.