Thread: Bushes

They always have some 'spring" (thats what they are for) but should haveno actual play. Does that help?

John

Same as any flex bush on any car, If there is play before the bush starts distorting or if you can distort the bush without to much effort then more than likely they are stuffed but it depends on what bush is in there as well, rubber ones distort easier than nolathane but nolothane ones can be noisey in some applacations.

I have Nolies in mine and I dont notice anything noisier than anything else so yeah have a look and see.

Make sure you take the weight of the car off them before you test it as you dont want to be lifting the cars weight as well.

Hope that helps.

Get a strong torch and a large screwdriver.
Lever the hockey stick side to side while looking between the axle brackets and the hockey stick.
If the hockey stick and bush moves along the inner sleeve then the bush has delaminated ( ie the vulcanising/bond between the bush and the inner sleeve has let go). Usually the inner sleeve is polished from the movement of the bush .
Regards Philip A

The handling on my Disco had deteriorated badly, so I suspected the rubber bushes. When I twisted the radius arms the smallest of cracks appeared in the rubber; it didn't look at all serious, but I decided to change them anyway.

When I got the first one out, I held it in vice, put a shaft in the centre hole and hung a heavy weight off the other end of the shaft; then I measured the deflection. The cracks had also opened up considerably. The same test on a new bush showed far less movement.

The Disco now handles superbly - so I guess sloppy handling and any sign of movement, or cracking, is reason enough to change them,

Cheers Chazza

IMO - Just change the feckers... As they take such a pounding, I usually just replace them as a matter of course.

The other way of telling if they're on the way out is just by the way the truck is handling. Someone of your mechanical sympathy should notice that straight away...

M

Originally Posted by camel_landy

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. Someone of your mechanical sympathy should notice that straight away...

M

Now come on Mark how long have you know me , you know i am a ruff **** and don't have any Mechanical sympathy towards any of my trucks

i am a ruff **** and don't have any Mechanical sympathy towards any of my trucks

that there sounds like its straight out of a toyo owners mouth!!
thems fightin words!!

cheers phil

Nolethane or rubber? Which controls axle movement better?