Thread: County Springs/ Shocks

How elongated?
It must have been horribly noisy for a long time. There is a reasonable amount of play in one in good nick, so it might not be a problem if its not major and you do up the new bushes tighter.
The only fix I can think of is to remove the complete front axle, build up the hole by welding & grind it with either an angle or die grinder

I had this problem on the rear axle. I bought two heavy guage washers and welded them to the underside of the axle spring mount.

The passenger side is even worse so I'll probably do the same and weld two washers in place. I know the rear on mine is bad, as there was no bottom bushes fitted to the shocks when I purchased the vehicle.

I have a stiff spot on the steering, which I thought might be shocks/springs/tyres but I think it might be the uj's on the steering as one is a bit clunky. Looks like a busy day tomorrow

You can get away with washers in the rear, however, its a tight fit, worse with neopreme bushes on the front. I made up a tool out of a welding clamp to make it easier, but I can't access photobucket to show you

Yeah it seems to be a fairly common problam on the older rovers, easyest fix is to just weld heavy washers in place as said previously...

In reguards to tight spots in the steering, it is quite likely to be the steering shaft uni's, we had the same problam on the county, lumpy steering turned out to be a seized uni

CHEERS TIM.