The time has come Puma bushes

[dullbird]

So the time has come the bushes have had it on the puma....looking at buying a press to get the buggers out

My question is has anyone on here poly bushed a puma yet?

I'm wondering whether the same bushes apply to the puma as the TD5.....does anyone know for sure?

[justinc]

Hi Lou, as far as I can see, all the bushes from the previous model of Defender (2002 on) are identical. (In 2002 they changed the panhard rod bushes as far as I remember.)

JC

[isuzurover]

SuperPro - The only bush to use.

Cheaper to buy from the UK apparently.

[rick130]

SuperPro - The only bush to use.

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+ onethousand

[dullbird]

SuperPro - The only bush to use.

Cheaper to buy from the UK apparently.

I went to supercheap to get a quote for superpro for the Disco 500bux!!! for front and back

I bought my superpros off ebay from a guy in QLD...same price as bringing a set in from the UK from what I could tell with the postage...QLD guy is $350 for front and back posted.

If they are the same as the TD5 then superpro will go in the Puma

[rick130]

It probably doesn't matter with bog stock suspension, but I'd use these ones at the chassis end of the radius arms (and I actually do, but my suspension isn't standard either )

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Not the standard style ones (Find SuperPro Parts for My Vehicle)

[TimNZ]

I brought a 30T press to do my 110 the other weekend, in retrospect this was a bit of an overkill, but I didn't want to get stuck with the A-frame Ball Joint, (which took 18T of force according to the gauge).

Good luck with bushes, it can be a character building expirence

Cheers,

[dullbird]

I brought a 30T press to do my 110 the other weekend, in retrospect this was a bit of an overkill, but I didn't want to get stuck with the A-frame Ball Joint, (which took 18T of force according to the gauge).

Good luck with bushes, it can be a character building expirence

Cheers,

Well Tim all I can say is we both have a lot of character which is why our cars have been polybushed for years...when we lived in the UK we only had the curb outside our house to work on the car, no garage no nothing so burning and hacking the bushes out was how it was done....

we went through this with the disco..a couple of years after getting it, to remove the original bushes...so we ARE NOT going to do it with the Puma.

we have a hoist now so we are officially posh! posh people dont work hard so press it is

[Dockstrada]

If anyone around Syd is stuck and needs something pressed I have a 100t'r laying around

[Judo]

I bought a cheap 30T press ($250 delivered!) and tried it for the first time last weekend. It was fantastic for the A-frame ball joint and couldn't have done it without. (Altho a little heat also made it easier)

Didn't go so well trying to press out rubber bushes tho!! Could not get a socket to stay centred on the bush without it slipping over the edge onto the frame. Is there something I'm missing, or is it just a really tedious difficult job?

What press are you looking at buying?