My 1988 sapphire is needing rear beam bushes I was wondering if anybody had a project they had given up on and were selling off bits

Or if not where would the best place be to buy them?

 

Reading up on it a bit more and I'm considering solid bushes? Would this be any benefit? I often take the car to drift days but I also use it for Sunday driving

 

 

Sorry for the poor picture quality. It is a picture of a photograph

 

Standard ones are said to be better than changing to polls ones, ggr now make them you can get them on eBay they about Ł80 each though!!

Better option is a 6deg with rose joints but they arnt cheap!!

 

Never heard of rose joints. Tbh I don't want to spend a fortune on the car after all it's only a Dohc and it'll never be seen

 

Bought a set of rear flow flex rear bushes. They should arrive in the post any day soon

Do. Need to aligne the rear axel when I put the new ones in?

 

floflex aren't the best to be honest, but you simply push the old ones out and push the new ones in, i'm sure there's a write up i've done in the past explaining how to do it with the car on the deck

you noly need a 17mm socket and a 19mm socket and a trolley jack and a socket big enough to push the bush out

 

Tell me how you pushed the bush out mate.
I was planning on getting a pulley puller and pushing it through that way?

 

Drop the beam on one side
Put a big socket on top of the bush
Jack the beam back up again
It should pop the bush out
If it don't just jump up and down on the rear seats until they do
And to put the new one back in again, just put the bush under the hole and jack the bush back into place again

 

That sounds simple whether or not it will be will be fun t find out. Lol thank you

 

Ah sorry didn't realise you meant the beam mounts thought you meant the arm bushes!! Ignore what I said lol

 

The arm bushes need the beam out to change over

Don't really need changing if you do the beam mounts and diff

 

Nah I know way just saying my comments were in reguards to arm bushes not beam ones so to ignore it!!!

I've got solid ones to go on mine when I ever get round to powder coating my spare beam!!