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[Marks DTM Calib]

Rear bushes can be changed with a good vice and a hammer.  .

[tunnie]

Probably don't ask too much of them pootling about the edges of the fronts only wear under duress or if the geometry is well off

Always goes to WIM, but it's been around 4 years since it was last there!

Rear bushes can be changed with a good vice and a hammer.  .

You do know this is me  - no good Vice.

[TheBoy]

Thats why I say check yours first

Once you change WB, you need geometry. If you can get away with just poly....

Yes thats what I was thinking, possible new steering idler too. Can't see/feel any play, but front feels very loose. Which could also be wishbones.

But at 160k old, the ball joints can't possibly be still good can they? 

Stop summerising on what may or may not be, physically check for play .

If the rear bushes are fine, I see no reason to change them. If the balljoints are fine, I see no reason to change them.


As to replacing the wishbones, as you know, I went down the refurb route after being less than impressed with the quality of the current crop of Lemforders. Even if you did change the wishbones, poly it anyway, seems nobody can now make a rubber bush that lasts

[TheBoy]

Rear bushes can be changed with a good vice and a hammer.  .

A 20t press failed to remove the ones on TBE - and they hadn't been in that long, if you recall, we did them a couple of years back at Hornby HQ

Had to resort to drill and hacksaw 

[Lazydocker]

Probably don't ask too much of them pootling about the edges of the fronts only wear under duress or if the geometry is well off

Always goes to WIM, but it's been around 4 years since it was last there!

Rear bushes can be changed with a good vice and a hammer.  .

You do know this is me  - no good Vice.

And not enough muscle power even if you did

[SMD]

Are poly bushes available for the rear wishbone?