pee vee

As title really. best poly bushes for saph cos.

full set, i looked at Deflex advert in magz, they seem a bit cheap ? ??

just want the car to feel a little less wolley lol .

GUZZLER

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powerflex, proper bushes, stainless sleeves etc....

https://passionford.com/forum/viewto...powerflex+bush

pee vee

thanks mate!

another question i have is,
whats involved in fitting the rear bushes?

does the whole rear end need to come off?

also, do any of them need to be Pressed in? and old ones pressed out?

I know the front ones are easy.

dojj

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there have been countless threads about this over the past few months, but they all boil down to how much money you have

they ain't expensive for nothing

as for the rear end, if you are doing the whole 6 then yes, you need to drop it to get the bushes out due to some tawt at ford deciding that the needed to put the diff in the way of some of the botls that need to come out

i didn't need to get mine pressed out but most people haven't been as lucky

if you are only doing the beam to body ones thentry the following:

support the beam with a trolley jack
undo the 3 bolts (2 for the plate and one for the beam)
let the jack down
the beam should drop down enough so you can put a big lump of something in the way between the bush and the body
jack the car up again and it "should" pop right out
if it doesn't, try dropping a bit of a lardy into the back seat to pop it out (as i said, mine popped out straight away but my mates needed a hefty 24 stoner to get them to shift)
support the beam with an axle stand
clean the inside of the beam where the bush sits
put the new bush (well lubbed) into the bit where you want it to go and jack the new bush into place (again, a lardy volenteer may help here )
and job done

pee vee

lol thanks mate!

as said the deflex ones did seem a bit cheap.

seems a bit of a mission to get the rear ones out then in again!

dojj

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the rear beams i did on mine in about 40 minutes, both sides

but my mate took 3 hours just to not do one (if you know what i mean)

if you want to do the wishbones then it's worth pressing them out

pee vee

yeah i see what you are saying!!

i wanna do the whole car so really all of them are gonna be re-placed .

ballin

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ive used nothing but deflex in 3 cars, no probs whatsoever!

on the other hand, i just had to rip my powerflex bushes out as they have failed in the lower arms and they are less than a year old.

pee vee

lol .. bloody hell! its a mine field with modding cars!!

what ever way you turn it may well fook up

thanks for the input mate, i DO notice that Deflex are the only people
offering lifetime guarantee though!

dojj

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in an intresting development though, i'm still waiting for ford to get back to me about fitting poly bushes to their tca;s

apparently, if you have ford tas and fit poly bushes and the tca's fail, they aren't covered under their parts warrantly (says me who's £66 worse off because of this)

as soon as i get a letter though, it'll get posted EVERYWHERE

AlexD

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I used Powerflex on the two main big doughnuts, left the rose joints in, and used poly race for the anti roll bar.

Al...

moonstone mike

I know some people who have fitted de flex with no worrys?

I know what you mean they are cheap but .......good

pee vee

JUST Been doing a bit more searching on this subject on here.


Why is it some people are saying NOT to poly bush the rear end
of cossies?
are they a bit harsh on the road? but im also reading
people saying they are absoltly fine on the road.

DAMO V said to only use genuine spherical rear beam mounts,
just wondered others views ?


just wondering Pros and cons!




PS: i do realise that it will be a more harsh ride than standard bushes,
but thats to be expected right.

Jasesapphy

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I used deflex all round no issues so far had the front ones in 4 years, rear ones were done last year, fine on track and road.

Some people have different views, i think there fine, fitted to my mates RST and my old 2i

martinmace

i have also used deflex in the past and ordered a complete set for my s2 today for under £90

Fudgey

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i got a full set of delfex 2wd bushes (for nowt mind )

but used em before on 2 sets of lower arms in me old mk5/6 escorts and not had any probs, other than a coont to fit.

but they now do complete replacement arms for the fez/escort

twitchyrear

i burned my old beam bushes out looks like ill have to get the new ones pressed in,wishbone arms are peice of p##s.i used deflex.

pee vee

thanks guys!
hopefully my bushes will be here for the weekend so i can play!!

any ideas why Damo V was saying not to use anything but
gen ford for the beam mounts??