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hockey stick/radius arm bushes (disco 91)

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clbarclay:
Another option is to remove the arms and take them to someone with a press to change the bushes. Not as cheap as DIY, but can be a less hassel.

I have a fly press, but generally I find it easier to press the middle out of the bush and then cut through punch out and the outer, rahter than press the outer out.

I find it easier to just remove one link from the suspension ata time, rather than fully disconnecting an axle.


Polyurethane bushes are generally easier to fit*, though you may still need a vice or clamp to pull them in, depending how tight a fit they are. Personally I prefere genuine rubber bushes, but ease fitting isn't an issue.

*I find the rubber radius arm to chassis bushes easier to fit. Plus some of the polyurethane bushes I've fitted are a tight squieze into the brackets. Its not a problem but when you trying to lifting a radius arm back into place its just another hassel.

Range Rover Blues:
Poly bushes will also make the bump-thump harder and can make a car with steering kickback worse not better.  For off-road articulation and a softer ride I'd suggest the rubber bushes at the axle end as they are no harder to fit and your choice of either poly or rubber/metaliastic bushes at the axle end.

For best articulation fit the early RRC or Defender bushes (narrower) which are only one layer of rubber and therefore softer, the later dual-layer metaliastic bush was designed to reduce body roll when the EFi RRC was introduced.

clover:
Paaahh! Get me the blow torch!!!! We will burn them out Stretchy! You got any fuel lines that you want setting alight at the same time??????
MOOOHAAAaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

I've got a set of blue poly bushes that I got off somebody on here. I'm hoping that they will be easy to fit. HA ha.

stretchy:
Thanks for letting me use your 3 tonn press john hahaaaaa

clover:
No problem.

3 ton press = My Discovery. Simples.. even son of mongoose could tell difference!

Jack up Discovery put hockey stick and polybush underneath the wheel, let down the jack, and it becomes 3 ton press!!!

"Then fitted polybushes (they are easy to do without a press)". Lee Celtic is going to mine when they want changing! Easy to fit!!! Not when you are doing them on the drive and haven't got a vice to hand!!!

Won't mention Chris "I've got a big hammer" Beech and why he should not be allowed near anything with a thread on the end!

When you coming round to do the other side. Rain has stopped play at the moment.

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