Thread: Front up n down while driving

Eric , diesel and tins,
I have the arms to install.
I'll see how that goes

Thanks everyone

Originally Posted by Eric SDV6SE

Yes, can do that, however the mehle kit has oversized ball joints (35mm over 32mm from memory) and the bushes in the lower arm are better as not being the prone to failure hydra-bush. So a better solution imho.

Only if its a mall crawler...

The hydrobush is design such that the vehicles articulation is excellent. Anything stiffer reduces articulation and places added stress to the rear bush mount.
The extreme end of this is urethane bushes, which have on multiple occasions, split the bushing mount completely.

Originally Posted by Tombie

Only if its a mall crawler...

The hydrobush is design such that the vehicles articulation is excellent. Anything stiffer reduces articulation and places added stress to the rear bush mount.
The extreme end of this is urethane bushes, which have on multiple occasions, split the bushing mount completely.

Being that the its only the rear bush that is different you would never know the difference, about to do my second set of bushes on genuine arms after 5 years 80k and fitting meyle hd again.

Originally Posted by loanrangie

Being that the its only the rear bush that is different you would never know the difference, about to do my second set of bushes on genuine arms after 5 years 80k and fitting meyle hd again.

The rear bush is the key flex point - it’s noticeable.
I’m only on my 2nd replacement hydra-bushes in 210,000km.

Driven a friends D4 with MHD and ride and offroad is notably different.

When I had the dreaded clunk my mechanic advised poly bush as a replacement and said his other customers were happy with them, against my better judgment I went ahead with them.
Felt great around town and just slow local driving, did one decent length trip and they are crap at speed, crap on rough roads, worse on dirt corrugated roads, atrocious off road
went back and got new arms with hydro bushes, now it’s back to how it should be and how LR designed it to be
who cares how long they last

I would never use poly but the Meyle rubber are good and dont restrict flex at all, i highly doubt you could tell the difference since its only the rear bush that has a different construction.
Maybe using the complete meyle hd arms but these would still be no different to factory armoured or HD arms, anyway each to their own.