bultacobob
Member
It does all look a little odd, weirdly I remember there being 2 nuts per thread, were as now there is clearly only 1 and some washers, must be getting old. I have axels stands and a couple of jacks so it will be well supported.
bultacobob
Member
bultacobob
Member
And that's why they are all coming off. I assume that the proper shackles would be a little shorter as the springs have only 2 leaves. I have also noted that the drivers side is more D shaped at the top yet all the shackles that come with the springs are rounded. Is there a reason for this that anyone knows off?
Extra nuts are larger and just used as spacers, doubt it is your issue, but I would say poor from an engineering point of view.
Back to the front spring eye, all that rust suggests to me something is moving in there.
I see slack and loose u-bolts all the time at work, before I even start hitting things it is the fresh rust that is the giveaway sign, more of an issue on the toy trucks rather than the full size ones.
I tried polybushes once on my 90, it was never right aftewards, several months later and back to std metalastic bushes and normal service was resumed, this bought about a big downside to the polys, they let water in lots of it, and this helps the bolts/sleeve rust badly making things a right barsteward to get apart.
Do not see polys on commercial vehicles, says it all for me.
This is the front lower arm off a D3 that had polys fitted, they do not do well on polys!
Back to the front spring eye, all that rust suggests to me something is moving in there.
I see slack and loose u-bolts all the time at work, before I even start hitting things it is the fresh rust that is the giveaway sign, more of an issue on the toy trucks rather than the full size ones.
I tried polybushes once on my 90, it was never right aftewards, several months later and back to std metalastic bushes and normal service was resumed, this bought about a big downside to the polys, they let water in lots of it, and this helps the bolts/sleeve rust badly making things a right barsteward to get apart.
Do not see polys on commercial vehicles, says it all for me.
This is the front lower arm off a D3 that had polys fitted, they do not do well on polys!
bultacobob
Member
I am with you on the polys, I intend to rebush them with original land rover parts. From what I have read it seems on general that many people revert back to original but use poly in the chassis. Thanks for pointing out the rust problem , for me its deal beaker for poly.
Check first, as I can vaguely remember some of the para springs had different size bushes to the std l/r srpings bushes?
The early cars had two metalastic bushes in each spring eye, they were so good I only replaced one eyes worth on my 59 about 6 years ago, the rest are still original!
bultacobob
Member
The plan is to drop the spring and then extract the bush and measure it. I have found a site with different sized bushes so hopefully will get a match. Plan B is to just buy a complete new front set with the proper U bolts and start again without the hassle.
