Thread: Breakdown box

Yeah my thoughts are the same I all ways give my cars a good going over b4 I go anywhere helps having a workshop at my disposal... notice a few ppl carring shocky bushes do they really flog out that quickly? Or Is it just coz they're a cheap easy part to carry..

interesting seeing what different people are carrying and gives me ideas of what I might need just purchased a spare thottle position sensor to chuck away as a spare just going to slowly put things together.

Cheers Brian

Originally Posted by Patchy

... notice a few ppl carring shocky bushes do they really flog out that quickly? Or Is it just coz they're a cheap easy part to carry

Cheers Brian

The rear lower shock bushes on my old TD5 with tough dog shocks had a tendency to eat bushes. First time on a trip was the Vic High Country after days of climbing up and down dale. The other was the Cape. I had newish bushes before I left Sydney and they flogged put by Roma. Replaced them in Roma and drove to the tip and back. They were shot by the time I returned and were replaced in the post trip service.

Down the Vic High country the tracks were slow and rocky. We were pushing hard to cover ground. The leg up the Cape was Tarmac so no explanation by analogy to the Vic High country terrain. The corrugations on the PDR find weaknesses in your suspension and exploit them. The poor shocks had a hard time.

Since then I've gone to the pin /pin 80 series shock with Toyota type bushes and after 6 months of hard off-road work and several 4wd trips they look new.

A possible middle ground is to cut the cups off the axle and use a 80 series bush with a pressed washer that houses into the mounting hole. Gwyn Lewis in the UK sells the washers, or will give you an idea how to knock up a set in the workshop.

And yes for the space bushes take up in you kit is a factor too.

MLD