4g rear upper wishbone poly bushes

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Mon Nov 10, 2014 8:48 pm

the arb bushes have a grease nipple

Angus · Post by **Angus** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 8:24 am

Oh well, that's going to be a bunch of fun with all the lower arm ones.

Post by **vanzep** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 9:21 am

mercutio wrote:the arb bushes have a grease nipple

I never got to use the nipple

i had to remove my es rear arb bushes (black es) as one of them had deformed quite badly ater about 18 months on the car- there was still plenty of grease in it. I just refitted my oem ones which are still in great condition despite them being decades old.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 10:18 am

That's worrying news... What had caused it to deform?

Angus · Post by **Angus** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 7:27 pm

Same happened to my rear ARB poly bushes - black ones - after about a year. The bar was rattling about in one of them i.e. the hole had got stretched, starting on the outer edge by the look of it, and the other was heading the same way.

I got a set of OEM rubber ones to replace them, and put the old brackets back on too (from memory, I think they're slightly different dimensions).

Post by **vanzep** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 10:24 am

yeah the oem bushes and brackets are about half the size of the es ones

Cutz · Post by **Cutz** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 3:47 am

Angus wrote:Aye, there's a bit of resistance. Easy to move, but not loose - they stay where you move them to if you see what I mean.

Nuts are new and torqued up, so I guess I'll whack them on the car and see what happens.

Thanks folks.

you did grease them with Poly grease when installing, didn't you?

otherwise they'll squeak like mad.