Patent ID: 7866025

Claim:
A method of making a vehicular rod end, said method comprising: providing a nonelastomeric inner member having an outer bonding surface segment and an axial bore with a center bore axis, providing a nonelastomeric outer member having an inner bonding surface segment and an axial bore with an axial bore center bore axis, providing a plurality of nonelastomeric shims, including a first inner nonelastomeric shim, and a second outer nonelastomeric shim, providing a rod end mold for receiving said nonelastomeric inner member and said nonelastomeric outer member with said nonelastomeric inner member held in said nonelastomeric outer member axial bore with said nonelastomeric shims disposed between said nonelastomeric outer member and said nonelastomeric inner member, said rod end mold including a means for misaligning said outer nonelastomeric outer member with said nonelastomeric inner member, providing a curable elastomer, molding said nonelastomeric inner member to said nonelastomeric outer member with said elastomer under an applied elastomer pressure inside said mold and curing said elastomer wherein said nonelastomeric inner member has a molded misalignment orientation with the outer nonelastomeric outer member with the nonelastomeric inner member axial bore center bore axis nonparallel with the nonelastomeric outer member axial bore center bore axis.