When I left Mississippi with my bus the day I bought it, I started hearing a noise in the front end. The rattle became increasingly worse, so I assume the neopreme actually started falling out of the worst one. I would have thought that I just had an isolated case of premature failure as a result of faulty parts or incorrect torque, although the bolts were not loose on mine. I mentioned this to another Prevost owner, and he told me that he had the same failure at around 67K miles. He said he had them replaced at a shop and was told that it was not uncommon for them to fail at 40K to 50K miles. Maybe I misunderstood what he told me, and I will verify when I can get back in touch with him.
I hope this was just two isolated cases, because I don't at all see why these should fail so early. Maybe Prevost installled some bad ones in some of the 98-99 models. I really don't know, but I think the pictures verify that mine were a "little" on the worn out side. Fortunatley, it was a very easy and inexpensive fix. Less than $45 for all bushings and less than two hours to remove, clean and re-install.
I just realized that in this first picture, I show the bottom connector for the sway bar. It appears that the steering arm above the sway bar link is part of that same bar, but it is not. You cannot see the top end of the sway bar link, but it looks just like the bottom connector.
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