Omega Owners Forum
Trading Area => Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted => Topic started by: tunnie on 20 November 2019, 12:07:50
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£20 posted.
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Oops, wrong image.
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I can't edit, would a mod kindly do so?
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Bargain. These are the thick end of £50 new...
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I was going to say, Sachs the picture poster. ;D
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Yup, they 'never' wear out - certainly I know mine have been on two cars, probably 40k if not more so far, no signs of appreciable when I inspected them a couple of weeks ago. Bargain.
Cheapest awful pair of wishbones off ebay, GM balljoints and the other bush, chuck these in, fit and forget for years and years. :y
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The set in the daily have done over 250K over two vehicles, the rear bushes only last 30 (Meyle) to 40K (Lemforder) though so it's still a wishbone refurb / refit / geo job every year :-[
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250k?! That's an advert for Polys, then!
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Sold. Please lock :y
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The set in the daily have done over 250K over two vehicles, the rear bushes only last 30 (Meyle) to 40K (Lemforder) though so it's still a wishbone refurb / refit / geo job every year :-[
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Can’t we get them for the rear of the wishbone too then?
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GM ones last donkeys - it's the front one that wears - if you fit a 'solid' rear bush then the tresses are put through the metal 'bone and this then eventually tears the wishbone.
Not ideal :D
Basically the rear bush needs to flex :y
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The set in the daily have done over 250K over two vehicles, the rear bushes only last 30 (Meyle) to 40K (Lemforder) though so it's still a wishbone refurb / refit / geo job every year :-[
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Can’t we get them for the rear of the wishbone too then?
the wishbone rotates around the front bush axis, so replacing the stock bonded together, oil fiiled bush with a solid one that is much more durable is a straightforward job.
The rear bush is more of a rubber coated balljoint, and its internal compliance is necessary for it to move. A solid bush has so little compliance that the necessary movement can only be provided by the wishbone flexing, which it was not designed to do. And it quickly breaks as a result.
So fitting a poly front bush to a new wishbone solves the worn out(or incorrectly fitted; the results are the same) front bush problem. I just buy cheap wishbones, I don't see any point in fitting different ball joints or rear bushes until they're needed. Then when either needs replacement, GM parts are the way to go. And you'll get at least a couple of bush replacements out of a ball joint.
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Thanks👍