Hi everyone felt the cossie a bit strange on the back end since i've had it but now discovered that the nearside beam bush looks knackered.Is this a hard job?do you need to drop everything off the back end? cheers

 

Just off the top of my head, buttom shock bolts, 3 bolts each side holding the beam up (theres a plate) and diff mount bolts of diff bolts depending how you do it

You will have trouble getting them in, but powerflex are best

 

Have a pr of bushes if you interested

cheeRS stu

 

Got them on order with fords,cheers

 

Using ford ones,is this bad?

 

Power flex are better,for beam mounts,

cheeRS stu

 

Seen a few posts on here that suggest that polyuerthane bushes increase road noise on the rear,is this true? my cars a 4x4 stage one power

 

Also hubs will have to come off

I'd go for powerflex ones mate!

 

That is the rear trailing arm bushes, not the main beam mount bushes. What ones exactly are you changing?

And probably prop off diff end too

 

The big round ones not the inner and outer type

 

Powerflex are best to use

 

alloy ones are 100% better than any poly bush...

i have them in mine,noise is no worse than poly.and its completly transformed the handling

 

the easiest way i found to change them is :

1 . undo the big bolt in the middle of the plate covering the bush .

2 . undo the 2 small bolts what hold the plate up onto the car . ( have a jack under the rear beam to stop it dropping all the way down ) .

3 . get a piece of 2x2x2 square piece of wood , drop the beam down a bit , slide the wood in between the bush ( top ) and the car body .

4 . jack up the beam so the wood pushes down on the bush .

5. Using a big screwdriver inset it into the bush hole at the bottom and push the screwdriver up towards the body of the car and the bush should pop out , it will be tight .


Re fitting

1 . Put new bush with lots of copper grease around the top into the hole from the bottom of the beam .

2 . place another piece of 2x2 inbetween the beam and the body ( dont cover the hole the bush is going into) so the beam is spaced off .

3 . put a jack with the square 2x2x2 wood on top under the bush and jack the bush up into the beam .

4 . the bush should go in ( make sure it goes in square ) .

5 . put it all back together . 2 small bolts then big bolt in the middle .

Hope this helps . This is how i did mine as you dont have to remove anything only the wheel .

 

Thanks for the replies,local garage quoted me Ł120 plus vat thats max plus they'll put my lowering springs back in as well

Here's a photo of her

 

Looks nice m8.

 

Trav - I'd heard that technique before but never so well explained - nice one mate!!

 

just jack the bush back into place, no need for a block of wood to go in there

also, i used a big socket as i had one

and if the bush won't come out/go in, just open the door and get a large friend to sit on the seat a bit sharpish, that soon sorts the problem