Terry Seymour
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Evening all,
Got a 2005 Defender 90 TD5 and had a rather grim clunking sound suddenly start from rear drivers side when dropping off a curb or a large bump, after further investigation i found the problem to be the ball joint on the end of the rear anti roll bar so I dropped the whole assembly out and found the ball joint on the had at some point seized(no rubber cover)and then snapped, the passenger side was not a lot better but did at least move and was still attached even with plenty of play in it, also the 2 rubber D bushes are shot and the anti roll bar looks pretty worn where they hold he antiroll bar in place.
Anyway I wanted to buy a complete replacement kit but only seem to find kits for front and rear combined, the existing front ARB assembly looks OK, so my question is does anyone do an off the shelf kit with everything (inc bar) I need in a box for the rear only, or am I better off just buying the combined kit and having the bits there when the time comes to replace the front.
Also is there much benefit in paying a little extra for the polyurethane bushes, it’s only small increase in price, but is it worth it?
First major job I’m going to tackle on Larry so want it to go as smoothly as possible.
Thanks in advance
Terry
Got a 2005 Defender 90 TD5 and had a rather grim clunking sound suddenly start from rear drivers side when dropping off a curb or a large bump, after further investigation i found the problem to be the ball joint on the end of the rear anti roll bar so I dropped the whole assembly out and found the ball joint on the had at some point seized(no rubber cover)and then snapped, the passenger side was not a lot better but did at least move and was still attached even with plenty of play in it, also the 2 rubber D bushes are shot and the anti roll bar looks pretty worn where they hold he antiroll bar in place.
Anyway I wanted to buy a complete replacement kit but only seem to find kits for front and rear combined, the existing front ARB assembly looks OK, so my question is does anyone do an off the shelf kit with everything (inc bar) I need in a box for the rear only, or am I better off just buying the combined kit and having the bits there when the time comes to replace the front.
Also is there much benefit in paying a little extra for the polyurethane bushes, it’s only small increase in price, but is it worth it?
First major job I’m going to tackle on Larry so want it to go as smoothly as possible.
Thanks in advance
Terry
