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[i260]

I used to joke that anything past 50k you were living on borrowed time due the weight of a v6 and autobox slung up front.

My dad had an old 2.5 reflection back in the d a y and he got round to having the front bushes done about 50k ish and made it feel like new (well, ish).

Wish I had just got on and done this job 2 years ago when I first got the car ...

[i260]

I had thought that I haddecided Eurocarparts was the best place for getting the arms:

http://www.eurocarparts.com/ecp/c/Vauxhall_Omega_2.6_2003/p/car-parts/suspension-and-steering/suspension/suspension-arm-and-suspension-joints/?615720565&1&4f614ee26ba7ea88d5edf487b74699b9c92232ff&SUAR

http://www.eurocarparts.com/ecp/c/Vauxhall_Omega_2.6_2003/p/car-parts/suspension-and-steering/suspension/suspension-arm-and-suspension-joints/?615720575&1&289c3f7848b828012d675156ac6c6bf2a9c49cc1&SUAR

but are these the same at Allgerman? Thye call them control arms and have different ref nos:

http://www.allgermanparts.co.uk/ourshop/prod_906178-Control-arm-lower-NS-Omega-B-Lemforder-27734-02-90-576-788.html

http://www.allgermanparts.co.uk/ourshop/prod_906267-Control-arm-lower-OS-Omega-B-Lemforder-27735-02-90-576-789.html

If so then that is another £15 saved even with Eurocarparts discount!

[Marks DTM Calib]

You can re-bush them on the car, its not that hard to do.

Sod the Lemforders, there not worth the cash just poly them (or poly cheap ones)

[i260]

You can re-bush them on the car, its not that hard to do.

Sod the Lemforders, there not worth the cash just poly them (or poly cheap ones)

So this (http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl) is possible insitu or do you suggest another method - I have no specialist tools for pushing out bushes.

Presume rear bush removed in similar fashion?

[Marks DTM Calib]

The front bush can be done insitue, you simply drop it down, drill the rubber out and run a hack saw through the bush steel section and it drives out. The same process can be used off car as well. No special tools required for this approach.

The rear can not be done in situ easily.

[i260]

so to achieve what I want to with re-bushing would be to remove a wishbone, rebush as per the guide (presume big mallet to drive the new bush in?) using a gen rear bush and a poly front and then re-fit.

Cheaper as long as it all goes ok.

[Kevin Wood]

so to achieve what I want to with re-bushing would be to remove a wishbone, rebush as per the guide (presume big mallet to drive the new bush in?) using a gen rear bush and a poly front and then re-fit.

Cheaper as long as it all goes ok.

You will need a substantial press to fit new bushes (unless they're poly bushes). I wouldn't fancy my chances with a hammer.

[feeutfo]

As said previously, you need to examine the state of the rearward bush, and decide what to do from there. If it's ok, fit Polly in situ.

If it's buggered the wishbone needs to come off.

The rear bush is different construction. The centre spacer has a bulge in it meaning there is no line of site to drill through(on the one I cut in half anyway) it's possible to drill through but I broke about 5 drill bits doing so just to get room to pass a hack saw through. Although by the time I had drilled a 10 mill hole this had reached the edge of the bush anyway and it pushed out. It's a pointless exercise except it saved some time for the guy who pressed the new bushes in for me. You need a press anyway to fit the new one.

But that's all a pita. Fit lemforders IMO! Rear bush will last longer on those than pattern. Who knows what bushes they fit in those.