I've had a horrible experience with super pro bushes...
fitted my 130 defender up with them before I set off around Australia and now 12 months and 32,000ks later I've had to have them replaced at great expense.
I thought they would have been a good thing, after all people seem to rave about them on here.
I have traveled down some pretty bad roads but what I didn't expect was the brackets for the radius arms on the rear diff to wear... they kept coming loose and refused to stay tight no matter how tight or how often I did them up. Every time I checked the rear radius arms they were loose on the diff end. eventually they wore the mounting bolt holes and they would move around clunking as they went...
I'm back on rubber bushes now and have had the damage fixed up.
My case could be a unique one, or other factors could of caused my problems, but as far as I can see my defender had no issues for the first 165,000ks of it's life running rubber bushes. but 32,000 ks on polly saw me with all sorts of issues from clunks to steering wobbles.
maybe they just aren't cut out for endless corrugations or too hard perhaps?
I'm glad to see the horrible blue things gone!
once again I love driving me lovely 130
it's like a new car!
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