I quickly learned that is easier said than done in 2023, unless you want to pay the 2x price for a set from Rare Parts. My last hope was NAPA online still listing them available under P/N PCC HB1024, but the next day, the order was cancelled as not being available. So Rare Parts it was. Incidentally, the best price I found was on Amazon.
As I was comparing these with the old bushings, I noticed that the ID markings were identical to the set I had earlier installed (see 2nd pic). In fact, the female bushings even had the same pink swipe of ink that must have been used for some purpose at the manufacturing plant. The included washers and nuts were also identical. My calibrated thumbnail suggests that the durometer is also the same. These are marked “Harris” bushings, which seem to now be mainly split bushings devoted to leaf spring mounts. For all I know, that is who Moog was sourcing them from.
Anyway, I don’t know much about Rare Parts, but I have to assume that they are either 1) selling new old stock purchased from Moog (or Harris), 2) still purchasing private-label through Moog, or 3) have purchased the tooling from Moog, and building themselves. I think the latter is unlikely, because there’s a lot more to producing molded rubber parts than the tooling, and I wouldn’t expect them to still use the same pink paint swipe for any reason.
Anyway, as you might imagine, they were an easy drop-in replacement, and there was no change to the caster or toe.
