Mud-club
Vehicle & Technical => Defender => Topic started by: Axetamer on June 23, 2009, 21:44:26
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I swapped the bushes on the radius arms to polybushes, but now have lost loads of articulation at the front. I have a full (ALL the goodies) Gwin Lewis suspension setup both front and rear, and before fitting the polybushes could get the front springs to drop out under the cones by about 4", but now with polybushes cannot get more than about 1/2" gap under the spring seat.
So I want to go back to the OE land rover bushes which seem to allow the radius arm to rotate more due to not having the rubber flange part going up the edge of the radius arm as polybushes do.
Question: I have a large engineering/blacksmiths vice in my garage, is it possible to use this to install the OE bushes using sockets and tubung or will I need to take them somewhere to be pressed in?
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You need a 10 tonne press I think, but give it a go for nowt.
It's not the flang ethat does it, it's the hardness of the polyester material used, especially as you Defender has the softest rubber bushes fitted, they are not as stiff as the later RRC "double" bush and are narrower than late RRC and Disco. I think they are the original RRC bushes :-k
Anyhooo, you've gone form one exteme to the other.
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I made a 20 ton press using a machine mart 20t bottle jack and some hefty steel section. Lots of different size tube, old bearing races and sockets and done every bush on a friends rrc no problem. Still cant be arsed to do my own 18months later.