Huck, I was talking about the center bolt that holds the shackle plates together. So the ones that hold the bushings are the one that failed. Interesting. Not that my grandpa was chinese, for I am sure chinese productions is far from being good products (with very rare exceptions), but if you ask people south of the border about US cars compared with japanese, opinions differ. Anyway, as somebody pointed out we brought it to ourselves, wanting more stuff, faster, cheaper = crapy products. Being lucky enough to be proud owners of an amazingly engineered machine (simple, yet effective and timeless) we can realize what the new generations are missing buying use-and-throw stuff (the mother board failed, well, let's change it).
