Thread: Bush keeps coming out

How big is the lift? Might be the brand, its difficult to tell sometimes. My sons D2 had the same issue with a Lovells. He has OME now and no issues. I have the Lovells and no issues.

Cheers

It's to do with the lift, what happens is when you lift the car it rotates the diff housing towards the front, so the front shock mount bolt hole will be further away, what you need to do is put a spacer under the front mount to keep the shock mount level with the bottom mounting bracket.

Have a look at it you will see what I mean, mount the rear bolt only and you will see the gap between shock pin and the mounting bracket.

It has happened to me, I stopped it by spacing the front bolt mount.

Baz.

Ahhhhh ............ it's a suspension thing.

From the thread title, I thought it was something about George Dubya making frank admissions.

Thanks Baz!
I will have a look tonight, yep it is a 2 inch lift..

BMKal it is all shaved around here!

It may also be that the bush is a bit soft. Have you got poly or rubber bushes??
I have EFS on my shortlist for shocks so keen to follow any issues.

Cheers

Andrew

Hi Andrew,
I m pretty sure the EFS come with rubber bushes, I will let you know the outcome after I have seen West Coast Suspension on Thursday!
Aaron.

Hi Baz,

Any chance of a photo to show how you spaced out the shock? It would help me a heap! Aaron...

Originally Posted by Aaron40

Hi Baz,

Any chance of a photo to show how you spaced out the shock? It would help me a heap! Aaron...

Mine has a 4" lift, so the gap is probably a bit larger, I'd reckon your gap shouldn't anymore than 2 or 3mm, I just used washers, the strange thing is that it should not do it with a 40mm lift, mine didn't until I went to 4", I'd say the EFS shocks probably run a softer bush, and it probably isn't bonded to the eye hard enough.

I'll see what I can do about a pic, I'll be under the car tomorrow fitting new trailing arms.

Baz.