my rear beam and traling arms are all off at the coaters. i have poly bushes for the beam. I've been recommended to use standard trailing arm bushes.

Where is best (read cheapest )? ford or other? mr lewis maybe?!

 

I believe two have been discontinued .

 

standard bushes are no longer avaliable ... Powerflex it is then...

 

Wouldn't recommend it - I'd try and hunt down some no matter what it took....

 

you are shitting me! wtf! i need the car together and moved pronto

 

Start hunting then! I thought only two had been discontinued, as one resourcefal chap sourced to similar ones from Aston Martin and had them turned down to fit his Sierra .

 

im on hold to ford parts dept. i dont need anymore hassle thats for sure! hope he comes back with a good answer...

 

ok inner ones available at £55.94 EACH!

outers no longer available.

wtf do i do? remove my old ones which are maybe not so good and use them?

or use poly?

how bad can polys be?

 

whats so wrong with the powerflex ones then?

 

Rose jointed beam.

 

How bad are your outer ones? Surely given the company your work for, you have sufficient engineering contacts to be able to have some made?

 

i'll need to check them over.

do you know what my company does? we engineer FLUIDS which i guess would fall out

i'll get on the case with mates tho...

 

I agree mike get the oe part no matter what

 

they are a bush the OE part is a zero play zero resistance sphericle rose joint and are the dogs

 

For the petro-chemical industry - so you should have companies that you deal with that could do this .

 

i remember looking into this with my saff.....it drove awful on polybushes so i priced up the full set of standard bushes, and tbh it was about £300...so i just added a bit more and got a rose jointed beam lol.


EDIT: because i'm a god i found my original thread, with part numbers and prices

https://passionford.com/forum/showth...light=trailing

 

has anyone got a pic of these bushes..?

 

Nightmare!!!

Shame i aint got any spare kicking around you could have.

 

AFPMSL.

 

And i agree with Teabagsystems.

 

how the fuck much is a friggin rose jointed beam then?

JESUS CHRIST!

 

yeah does anyone have a pic to see exactly which ones these are as i have full set of poly`s about to go on but have 2 brand new black standard ones there too

 

I managed to get four trail arm bushes for my saph £217 all in, whats all this rose joint business my ones were just four cylindracal bushes?


Luciano

 

To just look at the standard bushes you'd think they were just that, bushes becuase the outer seals look just like bonded rubber. Its the wieght of them that give away they are a little bit speical internaly.

I must be lucky as I bought a new outer joint from Ford around 18mnth ago...didnt realise they were now obsolete

 

Read thru this:

https://passionford.com/forum/showth...ghlight=bushes

 

Glad I noticed this post! I have a brand new rear arm but it doesn't come with bushes in it, so 'll have to get them sorted out from somewhere other than Ford then.
When are u getting your car painted silver

 

Fit next!!!!

You have a set of brand new mounts and that donut things at your house..............sitting under a 3dr!

Tried Graham Goode, as I'm sure thats where Davie bought that donuts things from (from memory from the reciepts)

 

Tosser