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Here's a pic of the old rubber bushes and as you can
see they are begining to fall apart. This was the reason
I'm changing them to poly bushes.
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As can be seen from this picture the new poly ones are
much larger than the old ones and should last longer
than I have the car at least.
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Here's the new bushes installed. The anti-rollbar
bushes are actually designed for a Mk1 Golf's TCA so
the metal tubes that came with them were 1.3mm too
big. The only solution was to get a local engineer
to turn this off the end of them. The other problem
is as the bushes are so hard they needed to be cut in
half to insert them.
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As the new bushes were so hard, inserting the
wishbones into the car was not easy. My old friend
Tiger Tool 1 (large mallet) was employed to knock
them into position. Loads of grease was used to help
keep things nice and smooth.
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Here's a shot of the wishbone in place and loosly
fitted. The bolts were an absolute nightmare to tighten
as there is so little room to swing a spanner in the
engine bay.
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The final results are very pleasing as the bushes
really look nice (in yellow!) and will hopefully stop
the wheels diving under heavy breaking. I've fitted the
the large metal washers as Ford intended: ---)0(--
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