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[TheBoy]

Let us know how you get on over time with it - wondering if the nylon may wear prematurely.

Ta

[Martin_1962]

Mine will be going within the next year - starting to get loose in feel.

I would like these as well.

I replaced all the bushes on the Sunbeam with competition parts partly for control (excellent) partly for avilability

[Kevin Wood]

Let us know how you get on over time with it - wondering if the nylon may wear prematurely.

Ta

Nylon bushes are usually much better than rubber / metalastic bushes in this respesct because it's the rubber perishing which causes the failure. Nylon is pretty tough if you use the correct grade and doesn't cause a lot of friction so it doesn't wear quickly.

Kevin

[TheBoy]

Let us know how you get on over time with it - wondering if the nylon may wear prematurely.

Ta

Nylon bushes are usually much better than rubber / metalastic bushes in this respesct because it's the rubber perishing which causes the failure. Nylon is pretty tough if you use the correct grade and doesn't cause a lot of friction so it doesn't wear quickly.

Kevin

Was thinking, due to location, all the grit that may get in there, accelerating the wear?

[Marks DTM Calib]

Its unlikely to get muck in, plus given the design with the large washer holding it in place, if it did catastrophicaly fail, its just going to make the steering have a lot of lost motion.

The plus is that nylon is self lubricating.

[platty]

Let us know how you get on over time with it - wondering if the nylon may wear prematurely.

Ta

Nylon bushes are usually much better than rubber / metalastic bushes in this respesct because it's the rubber perishing which causes the failure. Nylon is pretty tough if you use the correct grade and doesn't cause a lot of friction so it doesn't wear quickly.

Kevin

Was thinking, due to location, all the grit that may get in there, accelerating the wear?

I had thought about dirt and muck getting in and causing wear on the bush, but once i had greased it all and tightened it up, i couldn't see any way that the dirt could get in to the mating surfaces.

As people have said, ill try it and see what happens - if it wears out quickly, ill get the same vague steering and ill know it was crap!!

[Kaycee]

Well done Mate just shows what a bit of thought can do i think it will in all probability be better than the original