Fitting a polybush set to 110 Defender

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jetmorgan

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I'm planning to give my 1990 110 Defender a refurbish this coming spring & summer, cleaning of all the rust, giving the chassis a paint and fitting new bits and pieces.

I have bought a polybush set (Deflex orange ones I think) to replace all the rubber ones with. I don't have the money to pay someone to fit the whole lot in one go so my plan is to do replace some of them over the period of the warm weather and do as many as I can myself.

I know if you replace the bushes on one side then you have to do the other at the same time but what about front to back?

My plan is to replace the steering damper first, Ive purchased a Britpart supergaz steering damper with yellow polybushes. Then refurbish the panhard rod and replace the rubber with polybushes. At sometime later the front radius arms bushes and then the lower links on the rear.

The front suspension as recently been renewed with new shocks, turrrets and spring seats so the bushes will be new and the rear shocks will only a couple of years old so I won't be replacing them just yet although the rear shock mounts will be in need of replacing as they are getting a bit crusty especially on the drivers side.
 
You have already bought them so it doesn't really matter but a friend of mine who is a gamekeepr thought he would treat his tired landy to a full poly bush set. Got them all done only to have to replace them again six months later as they were worn. He has since went back to the originals as he has lost faith in the poly bush sets. I am not saying that you will have the same issues as he did , his landy was used every waking hour and offroad to. maybe others have had issues with them????
 
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front to back can be done seperately ,side to side at same time as you say ,some last a long time some dont, but are easy to change once fitted and you dont need a press like with genuine ones so once hard work of removing old bushes is done its a simple diy job in future which is why i fit them to peoples vehicles
 
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