coat the springs in some gooey old fashioned sticky grease - then wrap in denso tape, some use hessian sacking - protects the leaves
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coat the springs in some gooey old fashioned sticky grease - then wrap in denso tape, some use hessian sacking - protects the leaves
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What did you guys use to get the bushes back in? Ive wasted one bush trying to get it in with threaded M12 bar but the threads pulled. Should I use a round file to make the captive sleeve bigger?
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Did you clean the holes up with emery? Mine all popped back in suspiciously easily after that, except one. The one difficult one was helped by warming the chassis with a blowtorch and putting the bush in a bucket of water to cool it. The temperature difference made it smaller than the hole. (Your bucket of water might not be cool enough today it was minus three when I did mine!)
The others all popped in without any effort - beginning to suspect that's where my squeaks are coming from.
The others all popped in without any effort - beginning to suspect that's where my squeaks are coming from.
put a ickle chamfer on the new bush outer, get a mini flapwheel and run it through the chassis hole to get rid of as much crap as possible, coat the chassis inner with grease - I've got the proper press tool somewhere but the last few I've done have been drifted in using an old socket that I turned down so it bears down on the new outer - freezing the new bush apparently also helps (am skeptical if it really does help)
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I used a half round file and chamfered the leading edge and greased it up but I will follow these advices this time.
I don't know what threaded rod you will have been trying but I'd bet it was fairly soft stuff
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shouldnt be to difficult with genuine bushes ,ive had pattern that were not right size at all
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bingo.
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Going to order some original bushes.
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Or maybe not, Landrover ones are £55 compared to £2 bearmach ones!!!
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WOW, I looked out of my front window and someone had had put a bush puller set on my chassis. I had no idea who it was but turned out it was an ex-mechanic who had been watching my progress and having a chat as he walked past my drive. I went to thank him tonight and bought the tool off him. Good guy. Anyway, I will be burning out this second bush out and reaming the hole a bit further before fitting the other bushes. Just as well I bought 4. These pattern bushes are too big.
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its not just landys that pattern bushes are too big on i done a pair on the back of a ford fiesta as a favour ( what a fekkin bitch of a job ) the fekkers were 3mm wider than the fekkin hole i took 2.5mm off the bush with the lathe and the fookers were still tight as a ducks asshole in january
i wont be doing that without chargeing accordingly in future
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I normally run the grinder down the new bush to reduce the diameter slightly,clean the hole in the chassis with emery cloth and then they go in fairly easy with a couple of wallops with the lump hammer. Just don't take too much off otherwise they come straight out the other side of the chassis like a bullet! (not that I've done that.........honest)
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Well thats both chassis bushes fitted, both are in tight as the north end of a south flying duck. I used the threaded rod at first as the bolt is initially too short in the tool I bought of a local guy yesterday. I used a round file to ream out the captive tube in the chassis and filed a bit off the bushes. I greased them up and in they went. Why is there a fifty quid difference between pattern bushes and genuine Landy ones, are they really much better?
