Torsion bar shoulder bearing

Method for manufacturing a torsion bar shoulder bearing for motor vehicles, with a sleeve-shaped elastomeric spring between an outer bearing strap or an outer bearing lug and an inner shoulder portion of a torsion bar coaxial thereto, characterized by the following method steps:

• (A) starting the manufacture of the elastomeric spring as an elastomeric molding, elastomer/metal molding or elastomer/plastic molding in a vulcanizing die-mold;
• (B) removing the molding from the mold when it is cross-linked so as to be free of bubbles and before it is fully and completely vulcanized so that the molding has free vulcanization valences;
• (C) pretreating surfaces of connecting parts to be connected to the molding with a two component adhesive;
• (D) pushing the molding onto a pretreated shoulder portion of the torsion bar and inserting the elastomeric molding slipped onto the torsion bar into an outer bearing strap or into an outer bearing lug, and clamping the molding under moderate prestress;
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• (E) completing the vulcanization of the elastomeric spring molding, which is under prestress, to become part of the torsion bar shoulder bearing.