Destroying bushes, time to upgrade the arms i think.

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Hi all.

Recently after putting some road tyres on my truck to do some towing i discovered that a rear trailing arm to axle bush had completly eaten itself in about 4000 miles.
Ended up chucking a new bush in there for now so i could still use it. Then on the way back from London could feel a bit of a wobble coming from the front and sure enough the front arm to axle bushes where showing signs of giving up.

With the fact its lifted 2" and runs 265 tyres I know now whys its doing it and that replacment arms are required.

i'm just not sure which ones to go for.

First the rear trailing arms would I be best to go for single or double cranked? Whats the benefit of either.
And how much should i pay for the front arms? Best price i've seen is about £210 for a pair.

And finally should i stick with OE bushes or spend the extra and fit poly's?

Any info on this would be greatly appricated.

Cheers Chris.
 
Typical why didn't i see that!
Reckon i'll got for double cranked then. Just comes down to price on which set i should get.
Also who sells QT stuff? There castor correction front arms are ment to be pretty good.
Oh and if anyone has recomendations for where to get poly bushes i'm all ears.
 
the only reason people use them is because they are easy to fit - the fact that they tend to last less than 6 months apparently doesn't bother anyone

Gotta agree with Sean, everyone I know who uses poly's is always whingeing about how long they don't last, stick to rubber bush's.
 
Gotta agree with Sean, everyone I know who uses poly's is always whingeing about how long they don't last, stick to rubber bush's.

but peeps will argue that they "felt" so much better than the 20 year old original rubbers they just took out
 
but peeps will argue that they "felt" so much better than the 20 year old original rubbers they just took out

aye I've heard that rubbish as well, little do they realise that new rubber bush's all round would feel just as good.
 
Although I have just put polybush in mine if i had the time & tools i would have gone for oe rubber.

did a bit searching on here beforehand and found flo-flex got a pretty good write up but nothing to say how they lasted in the long term so its a case of wait and see for me.

OP if you have the time and tools go for oe rubber they will last longer
 
Cheers for the link fella. Lots of info on there.
As its not my daily driver think i'm just gonna upgrade parts as i go along.
Rear arms are next on the list followed by the fronts.
After that probably just leave it till something breaks lol.
 
One of the problems with fitting new "rubber" (I use that term loosly!) is that unless you specifically ask and chase up OE bushes, you'll get Chinese copies, and you might as well fit pieces of butter!
I have the same set-up as yourself, and was stuck for bushes for the panhard rod one day prior to a weekend out laneing, I had to fit some "Allmakes" Chinese ones, they didn't last the weekend out!! it did make the drive home very entertaining!!
I have since fitted polybushes in there from the kit that I'd previously replaced the majority of the other bushes with some 12 months previous, and have no issues with poly bushes.

I did go into some checking prior to fitting the polybushes, and found out that basically there are 3 "hardnesses" of polybush.
There are soft one, which will wear out quickly but give a normal ride (similar to the rubber ones)
There are hard ones that don't wear out, but wear the brackets & bolts out instead. (these usually used by the competition type vehicles)
Then there's the medium ones, that are..........medium........ They're stiffer than the rubber ones, but don't wear out the bolts etc.
I've had polybushes in my 90 for over 4 years now without any problems. The Disco has now got them all changed now the panhard rod has been done.

If you're fitting polybushes, go for a good named product, not Chinese plastic in blue & white boxes!
 
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