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<x-charset iso-8859-1> Yeah bearings are very difficult to get but are available from ISP West and they may even have good arms with good race surfaces, cost a bunch though. You must physically check and verify the condition of the bearings and race surface of the arms. Lack of grease is not uncommon, my bearings were so shot that they dug into the arm quite a bit and when I was able to yank them out with a homemade puller, all the needles fell out, they looked as brown as wood since they were lubricated with water and corrosion. Check the bearing without removing it, removing may damage it, check the arm bearing surface for pits. If you have the bucks get them at ISP WEST. If the bearings and/or arms ar not available then you can have a bushing made that replaces the bearing and trust bushing. I was going to have them made out of industrial bushing material that would last virtually forever with little or no lubrication but I was able to find good original parts in a San Diego junkyard. The cost of the bushing was going to be 220 dollars for 50 of them but the order fell through for them. This happened mid this year. If it is only the bearing that is going out, you can replace it with a bearing that has 2mm outer diameter smaller than an original and use a 1mm shim for this. That bearing is available. Yeah as someone told you , you may just have a loose torsion bar. I had this messed up too and it required enhancing the dimple. LEON MARTINEZ 1969 SQUAREBACK EFI/AUTO SAN DIEGO AND TIJUANA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the information-hopefully that will be the case. Is it true however that the bearings are unavailable? Andrew Davidson </x-charset>