Thread: 130 trailing arm bushes

I should mention you cannot tighten nut any more either

It's not the clearest pic ..., but from the best I can make out, the bush appears to be bolted onto the incorrect side of the chassis mount. May also be

I can't see what you are describing, but others have reported poor life from the bushes that are being supplied now, so I'm not disputing what you have described. And if this is the case, then it will affect your handling in that way.

Going by the recent quality of the rubber used, then the best advise is to get replacement poly bushes from Fulcrum. They should last much better and will flex better off road into the bargain.

Sorry crappy pic when enlarged. Taken on phone it's on the right way round. Where is best place for poly bushes

Looks pretty normal best I can tell from the crapy pic don't get talked in to plastic bushes by the sheeples especially if you don't need them

Get a decent lever in somewhere and see if there's any play there and at the A frame to chassis bushes, any play in either spot will result in rear steer.

My original rubber ones had compressed badly and needed replacing at around the 90,000km mark, the slop at that point was bad, the rear end rear steering and particularly roll steering terribly.

I'm a sheeple and fitted Super Pro bushes at that point ten years ago and have not needed to touch them since. Roughly 220,000km later and they're still fine, with better flex into the bargain.



No, actually I'm not a sheeple as at that time poly bushes were frowned upon by the Landy community and I was told I'd wreck my ride quality, crack my chassis and was probably a Land Cruiser mole, particularly after advocating the SP bushes on an open forum.

Originally Posted by 460cixy

Looks pretty normal best I can tell from the crapy pic don't get talked in to plastic bushes by the sheeples especially if you don't need them

plastics aint plastics

I gave em a go and six months ago they all went in the bin the front end clunked and banged like a boss the radius rod bushes at the diff end were all distorted out of shape pan hard rod bushes I went throu 2 sets of those before seing the light. The rear faired much better except the the aframe bushes now the only plastic junk in there is the diff end of the trailing arms I had a heap of pics but there gone AWOL

Originally Posted by 460cixy

I gave em a go and six months ago they all went in the bin the front end clunked and banged like a boss the radius rod bushes at the diff end were all distorted out of shape pan hard rod bushes I went throu 2 sets of those before seing the light. The rear faired much better except the the aframe bushes now the only plastic junk in there is the diff end of the trailing arms I had a heap of pics but there gone AWOL

What brand ?

IMO only SP make decent PU bushes, most anything else are the wrong duromoter (ie. generally too hard) and they only mimic the OE design bush, Fulcrum/SP redesign the style of bush in most spots and inevitably it's better.