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Replace wishbones with Lemforder

Replace wishbones with Meyle

Replace with el-cheap

Refurb originals with new rear bushes and a new balljoint

[TheBoy]

TBE has knackered wishbones.  The front bushes are poly'd, but rears are shot again. One of the balljoints also has some play.

What should I do.

[feeutfo]

IMO by the time
The front bush has gone and been replaced
The rear bush has gone and been rePlaced
The ball joint has gone and been replaced
The wishbone itself won't be long until its too rusty, and needs to be replaced

Remove and refit as needed, set up each time...

Not worth the agro IMO. Fit new job done. ESP as its you, ya nutter.

Tunnie style driver might be different.

[feeutfo]

In fact, most drivers won't push the car hard enough to find, actually no...CAUSE half the faults you do.

Don't Fu@k about.

...IMO.

[Andy B]

Where the option of replacing with GM arms? 

[aaronjb]

Depending on price I'd be tempted to buy el-cheap then press out the front & rear bushes and replace with poly & GM respectively.

[Lazydocker]

Depending on price I'd be tempted to buy el-cheap then press out the front & rear bushes and replace with poly & GM respectively.

That or Meyle/Lemforder and poly the front before fitting

[aaronjb]

Depending on price I'd be tempted to buy el-cheap then press out the front & rear bushes and replace with poly & GM respectively.

That or Meyle/Lemforder and poly the front before fitting

I have a set of el-cheap I've been meaning to do that to (it's getting ever more wandery and the drop link sounds like it's about to fall off - yet they both passed an MOT again today...) - I just assumed that TB would kill anything less than genuine GM bushes in short order given his, erm, reputation for spirited driving

[razzo]

depending on condition of the arms themselves go for a refurb 

[Marks DTM Calib]

Re-furb, rear bushes (easy enough to do) and new ball joints.

By far the most cost effective to do and less labour.

[Elite Pete]

Cheap WB, Vauxhall rear bushes and poly front bushes

[Jimbob]

I'd be trying Meyle HD next.  Then poly as required at end of life.

[TheBoy]

Re-furb, rear bushes (easy enough to do) and new ball joints.

By far the most cost effective to do and less labour.

Struggling to understand that bit Mr DTM - the wishbones have to come off to do rears, so wouldn't less labour be to then just slap the replacements in?  Of course, I'm likely missing something very fundamental... 

[TheBoy]

AFAICT, these are the original wishbones, rebushed rear and poly front about 2 years ago.

The MV6 is on its 2nd set of wishbones - I replaced them when they were about 6 years old, so the ones on there are about 8years old now. Current set have been rebushed once, about 3 or 4 years ago, and fronts poly'd about earlier this year.

Despite the age, are genuine GM wishbones, from a structural viewpoint, going to be better than the current crop of new ones? I suspect they are TBH, given some of the recent complaints about Lemforder ones (although there is some theory about ECP selling old stock).

(The warranty aspect is invalid anyway, as my first port of call for new wishbones will be to cut out the front bushes, and shove the polys in.)

Though I lack the drifts to get the rear bushes out, and replacements in, if I refurb mine.


Decisions, decisions 

[Marks DTM Calib]

Re-furb, rear bushes (easy enough to do) and new ball joints.

By far the most cost effective to do and less labour.

Struggling to understand that bit Mr DTM - the wishbones have to come off to do rears, so wouldn't less labour be to then just slap the replacements in?  Of course, I'm likely missing something very fundamental... 

But then you are fitting an inferior item as no polybushes.....more labour requried assuming you will be looking to maintain the same standard. 

[TheBoy]

Re-furb, rear bushes (easy enough to do) and new ball joints.

By far the most cost effective to do and less labour.

Struggling to understand that bit Mr DTM - the wishbones have to come off to do rears, so wouldn't less labour be to then just slap the replacements in?  Of course, I'm likely missing something very fundamental... 

But then you are fitting an inferior item as no polybushes.....more labour requried assuming you will be looking to maintain the same standard. 

Yes, the polys are going straight in, though its not that hard to cut out new bushes, and pop in the polys. Must be easier than rebushes rears without any drifts, and then fitting a balljoint?

Its a question not a statement, as I've never changed an Omega balljoint, or got out the rear bushes - although I've watched you a few times, but that was with presses and drifts...