cab bushing issue

[jlaird]

Today while I was working on my truck i noticed something black on the ground. A brand new rubber cab bushing split into about four pieces and fell to the ground. It was the cone shaped one that goes under the driver side forward position. Has this ever happened to anyone? I remember when I was torquing them to the 40-50 ft lbs that the passenger side one torqued down fine, but the driver side one would NOT torque, it just kept tightening. So I ended up measuring how much the cab was compressed on the torqued passenger side and matched the measurement on the driver side.

So with all that said, I think I'm going to forgo the rubber bushing and buy some poly ones. Any thoughts on this ordeal?