Technical Wishbone replacement

[Italian Coke Can]

Well, pre MOT checks showed that my clunking front end was the ball joints on the wishbones.

I know you have to change the whole arms. :bang:

Questions -

Anitroll bar bushes - where from?

Powerflex bushes - fitted a few months ago to the front. Change these onto the new arms or keep the new OE ones?

Wishbones - apart from fluffy, anyone cheaper than shop4parts?

Any ideas for what to do should one of the threads for the bolts that hold the rear bush mount on start to look iffy? When changing the bushes one felt iffy . . . .

 

[fingers99]

For the threads: new bolts, tap the threads. Taps are expensive, so contact Tracy Tools in Dartmouth, S.Devon (their web site seems to have crashed).
If re-tapping them doesn't work, helicoil.

Up to you whether to use the powerflex or not. I'd be inclined to.

Fluffy will do you ARB bushes (might be able to get Powerflex ones).

Sometimes new ones come up on eBay, but generally it's Fluffy or Shop4Parts unless you're sleeping with the motor factor's daughter.

 

[Hellcat]

buypartsbuy were half the price for my Marea arms.

 

[Italian Coke Can]

All done.

Fitted the powerflex bushes to the new arms (£75 delivered from shop4parts).

5 hours to do it in the pissing rain, including bush removal / swapping.

Anyone else who's going to do this - BUY NEW HUB NUTS as the driveshafts have to come out to split the wishbone ball joint.

Oh sooo smoth now! :slayer:

 

[fingers99]

Good job! But I'm sure Fluffy does the polly bushes for less than that.

 

[Italian Coke Can]

Bushes were alredy on the old ones. New arms (~£75pr) came with fiat ones that were removed to fit the old power flex ones. Think the PF ones were £12ea.

 

[custard]

pictures,guide? :chin:

 

[Italian Coke Can]

pictures,guide? :chin:

Haynes book. :idea:

 

[850kd]

buypartsbuy is where i got mine. My mechanic says dont try to rebush because its not the easiest job and invariably takes too long and therefore costs more than the ready bushed arm.

 

[fingers99]

It'd not be time/cost effective to replace the bushes if you were a mechanic and had no access to a hydraulic press and a little tooling (plus which on old units there's always the question of the bearing being knackered).

But as you don't pay for your own time and they'll burn off (and powerflex ones are push on/in)........

 

[rallycinq]

Anyone else who's going to do this - BUY NEW HUB NUTS as the driveshafts have to come out to split the wishbone ball joint.

Oh sooo smoth now! :slayer:

I bit late now I know, but you don't have to take the shaft out to get the ball joint off, particularly if you are fitting new ones.

Cheers

D

 

[rallycinq]

buypartsbuy is where i got mine. My mechanic says dont try to rebush because its not the easiest job and invariably takes too long and therefore costs more than the ready bushed arm.

I think you might be confusing front and rear arms. Rebushing the fronts is twenty times easier than doing the rears. Job doesn't need a press, a G clamp or engineers vice is perfect.

Cheers

D

 

[cojones]

75 for the arms fluffy can do that much much cheaper, as long as you're a clubcento member,