Thread: Polyurethane suspension bushes for D2

I have been looking at replacing the suspension bushes on my D2 as being 12 years old now with 210,000km it's a preventative thing.

Personally I like polyurethane bushes. This isn't a thread to debate the merits against rubber, but rather to provide some information for others in the future about the range of polyurethane available for the D2 and some of the technical information and specifications that I have obtained from the manufacturers.

The four main manufacturers catering for the D2 are:
SuperPro < Find SuperPro Parts for My Vehicle >
Floflex < Flo-Flex Polyurethane Limited >
Britpart - kit < Britpart > individual < Britpart >
Polybush < Kit 20 - Land Rover Discovery (Series 2)) >.
Nolathane have a small range too < Nolathane Suspension Bushings for LAND ROVER - RANGE ROVER DISCOVERY (1999-04) >.

With Britpart some posters on various forums have claimed that their bushes are manufactured by SuperPro using cheaper quality. Personally, I think this is likely mistaken and just a conclusion someone came to due to both being blue in colour.
Most of Britpars range are now yellow in colour - which is also the colour of the bushes on the Floflex website...
Britpart also list the Polybush brand bushes on there website < Britpart >

Nolathane and SuperPro are the only two to offer castor correcting front bushes:
Nolathane 45613 < Nolathane 45613 Front Leading arm - to diff bushing (caster correction) > - 2 degrees
SuperPro - SPF2560K < SuperPro Parts > - 2 degrees
SuperPro SPF2560XK < SuperPro Parts > - 3 degrees

Also of note is that Floflex are the only manufacturer to offer the watts linkage bushes. They are not listed on their website, but are available through their Shop on eBay < Landrover Discovery 2 Watts Linkage Centre ARM Bushes IN Polyurethane Sale | eBay >


Regarding the quality of the bushes, I have no previous experience with any on the D2 but have used Nolathane on various previous vehicles with great success.
Searching various forums and there's a lot of complaints on the Britpart, Polybush, Deflex/Floflex bushes.
SuperPro gets a lot of recommendations - but they are significantly more expensive than the British brands (i.e. around twice the price).
Nolathane rarely comes up in any conversations.



Aside from quality, the other key difference between the different bush manufacturers is the hardness of the bushes (see http://www.aulro.com/afvb/technical-...durometer.html for brief information on this), having spoken to the manufacturers I can advise the following specifications for the bushes that they manufacture to suit the D2:

FloFlex - 70 duro for radius arm bushes

Nolathane - 75 duro for front radius arm to diff bushes

SuperPro - 70 duro standard radius arm bushes and 80 duro 'Extreme use only' bushes available for the radius arm to chasis

I have yet to hear back from Britcar or Polybush.

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

so what twr73x is saying that no one manufacturer supplies the complete range of suspension bushes to refresh a D2?

one would hope there is a kit.....complete.

Superpro sell a complete kit for all but the watts link bushes.

For watts link bushes, all reading I have done recomends to stick with the standard bushes for this application.

Superpro extreme bushes are hard and are for dirt track, long course style of racing, not big flex.

I have Superpro 3° castor corrected bushes in the front of the D2 and they are great, I will be placing 2° castor corrected bushes in the rear as well to fix up the miss-alignment of the watts link bushes due to the lift.

I have not heard of anyone else doing this in the rear but I flog out watts link bushes very quickly, will be replacing all bushes at the same time to make sure there is no additional movement.