Steering damper query.

Went to fit a britpart steering damper bush kit earlier today and all that was in the bag was 2 yellow poly bushes for the stud end and 1 for the eye end with the little metal tube. No cup washers and I guessed you don't use them, 4 in total, 2 either side of the chassis bracket.
On second thoughts I decided that it was better to have them than not and luckily they were all in good shape considering so I could reuse them.
Should I have?
Were there supposed to be new washers in the kit?
Bit disappointing to find they should be used and not supplied.
Had a similar nark when I ordered new brake flexi hoses, also britpart, and they didn't have the nuts included which put me off the road for a week.
The old nuts never come off clean and regarding the steering damper, the cup washers are nearly always rusted and worn.
Cost cutting I guess?

IIRC, Mike at Brittanic resto's on the tube mentioned this the other day - some of the bush kits don't have the washers .... he didn't elaborate further - but, like you I would be fitting my old ones ...... as, how the **** does the load get spread evenly without the load spreading washers

Sounds "designed to fail" territory to me

Ordinarily I don't bother rebushing dampers as new complete ones are cheap enough and I never have much luck getting the rusty nuts undone and the damper usually ends up damaged
In one way or another. This time I was lucky with the nuts probably because they are high up and the steering guard offers some protection from water/mud spray. Front lower damper nuts are a right pita though, I just cut them off and fit new cheapy dampers.

Copper grease on assembly works for me

I should say I had a new steering damper ready but thought I would try getting the old one off first which was perfect just bushes looked ropey and I ordered the bush kit with the new damper to get free postage

Disco1BFG said:

Copper grease on assembly works for me

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Always copper grease them I do.
Did the drop arm today and it came off easy, I suspect because of the copper grease it was balmed in last time it was off 9 yrs ago or it might have been the slight leak from the bottom seal keeping it rust free.
Got the steering ujs to do next when they arrive, also copper greased but that was 16yrs ago and that's long gone now looking at them