Thread: Rear Suspension Birthday Recommendations

Originally Posted by LRD414

Other bush was worse ….

Was that before or after your Big Lap Scott?

Originally Posted by Eric SDV6SE

Was that before or after your Big Lap Scott?

After, changed last week.

Right, so ordered parts on Monday from AF, they arrived today. May get the time over the weekend, but the weather is too nice so probably end up going for a decent motorbike ride instead.

Still haven't found any torque values for the upper arm bolts to contradict the 275Nm for the lowers, and the bolts look the same.

Will check the workshop manual again to be sure

Did you order bearings? If so, got all the kit needed to change them? I looked at it today and thought, stuff that

Originally Posted by DiscoJeffster

Did you order bearings? If so, got all the kit needed to change them? I looked at it today and thought, stuff that

Same here DJ. No I didn't order new ones yet. I will check for any free play in the bearing hub etc when I do the arms, but at the moment no noise or grumbling (only from the wife 'cause spending too much on the car), or any other indication there's anything wrong with the bearings. Will cross that bridge when I get there. I have access to a press and the rest is just mechanical assembly.

Originally Posted by LRD414

Other bush was worse ….

My front left upper looked like that. Basically free floating pieces of metal and a few crumbs of rubber. Tells me the work was long overdue.
Replaced with OE front uppers. Did front and rear sway bar D bushes and the rear upper rear bushes were replaced with poly bushes. The improvement in ride quality after the work is amazing. Back to what is was when new.
I considered putting in AF RRS rear upper arms but was advised by my LR Indie to just replace the bushes in the original arms.

Originally Posted by Hachiko

My front left upper looked like that. Basically free floating pieces of metal and a few crumbs of rubber. Tells me the work was long overdue.
Replaced with OE front uppers. Did front and rear sway bar D bushes and the rear upper rear bushes were replaced with poly bushes. The improvement in ride quality after the work is amazing. Back to what is was when new.
I considered putting in AF RRS rear upper arms but was advised by my LR Indie to just replace the bushes in the original arms.

Any tricks on the sway bar bushes replacement before I attempt it? I’ve got the Meyle kits with connection arms sold by AF.

Originally Posted by PerthDisco

Any tricks on the sway bar bushes replacement before I attempt it? I’ve got the Meyle kits with connection arms sold by AF.

You’ll need to undo the front diff mount the get to the passenger side one in my experience. I support the diff, undo the three mount bolts then lever it out of the way to get to the bolts.