difference in adjustable bushings?

[DangerRanger2.9]

I orderd adjustable caster/camber bushings for my 86 ranger 4x4. The website i ordered from listed them as "84-90 BII, 83-97 ranger". The pic of them looked correct for my 86. Now that i have learned a little more about the bushings, i find out ther is two typs...ones for 90 and up pinch bolt style, and earlier style with nut type ball joint. Is that correct? If so, then obviously i shouldnt have ordered these, since the are listed incorrectly. Now the bushings have arrived..they look like the ones for the pinch bolt type ball joints. But im not really sure what the diff is between them...having truble finding pics of each to compare. The package my bushings came in is a BDS Suspensions box, labled "89-95 Ranger alignment eccentric" So i have the wrong ones for my 86 nut type ball joint, right?

 

[4x4junkie]

Yeah that's wrong. The change occurred midway through the 1990 model year (later being the pinch-bolt type).


These are ones for the pinch-bolt type:

If yours are similar to these, you have the wrong ones.
The bushings made for your '86 should slip over the tapered upper ball joint stud (pinch-bolt setups have non-tapered studs), then the castle nut threads onto the top locking the balljoint stud & bushing assembly into position within the beam (sorry closest I could find was a poor pic showing a D44 one, which are basically the same as your D28)



Maybe do a D35 frontend swap? Then you'll be able to use those bushings you have

 

[DangerRanger2.9]

Thanks 4x4junkie, that clears it all up.

 

[177CIOfPureLove]

So, if I did all my homework, these will fit in my 88' 4x4?

http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/moreinfo.php?pk=1056977

 

[4x4junkie]

Looks like the correct one in the pic (has the notches around it), though in the description it says something about thermoplastic in place of urethane when clearly they are metal.

 

[177CIOfPureLove]

Odd. Well, ordered anyway. Thanks a million!