Help Poly upper wishbone bushes

[Robert Price]

I have ordered some upper front wishbone bushes from Superflex they are cotton reel design 4/car. Having just removed the upper wishbones the old rubber bushes are pushed in from each side of the w/bone as there is a metal web halfway inside. I will have to cut the poly ones as far as I can make out. Also looking in the Moss book and Rimmer the poly ones are 4/car. Can anyone please enlighten me.

Rob

[Felix]

Rob, put the bushes in boiling water for a few minutes to "soften" them, add the lubricant and then push in the leading edge with a flat screwdriver.

Once you have the leading edge of the cotton reel fully in the wishbone then push them the whole way home.

I filed a slight champer on the leading edge to assist in the initial start but they go in without too much bother really.

 

Craig

[Dave Worne]

Hello Rob.

The new bushes should be supplied with a sachet of white lubricant. The method of removal/fitting is simply a piece of tube, washers & screwed rod using the lubricant freely when fitting the new bushes.

Don't forget to use a tapered tool to screw onto the threaded end of the trunnion when fitting the wishbones.

If you're unsure, call me. My numbers are in TR action under Derbyshire Dales.

Dave

[badshead]

Dave's tip should do the trick, alternatively if you've got access to a woodwork vice it should open wide enough to gently clamp the bush into the upper wishbone arm - engineers vice probably won't open wide enough.

 

Bill

[BlueTR3A-5EKT]

PS To. All of above....

Make sure all the grot and crud is removed from the hole in the wishbone where the new bush is to go.

 

Peter W

Edited March 12, 2013 by BlueTR3A-5EKT

[Robert Price]

Thank you all I will attempt the assembly as soon as the wishbones are back from shot blasting/powder coat.

Rob

[TR NIALL]

Thank you all I will attempt the assembly as soon as the wishbones are back from shot blasting/powder coat.

Rob

If Powder Coating the Wishbones you may need to clean out where the Polybush fits.

[Robert Price]

Thanks I have asked them to mask the inside of the wishbone to prevent the powder coat filling it.

Rob

[Quentin]

As per Badshead, I went down the vice route. I have a carpenters wood faced vice which was perfect. This also was useful for removing the old ones. Very easy this way.

Quentin

[RobinTR6]

Vice works great,. mine is a very big metal vice. Used a socket big enough to just go inside wishbone and used the ratchet end against the poly and just pushed it in, real easy. Done about 4/5 cars like this and definitely easiest way ive found.

[Robert Price]

Well Job done, made easier by taking the sharp edge off the wishbone where the poly bush goes in but had to use the flat edge of a screwdriver to gradually ease in the outer poly lip before pushing it through with the vice. What I took to be a web inside the wishbone between the old bushes must have been dirt removed by the shot blasting.

Rob