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Thanks are due to Lee Harvey on FaceBook for finding a solution to the long standing Koni damper bush problem.
Apparently the damper bush from a Triumph TR6 will fit. So if you want to refurbish your old OEM units you will need:-
Shock bushes - 8 x Triumph part No. 141481 1/2” ID
So at long last it is now possible to give the OEM units a new lease of life as an economical and practical alternative to after-market units without having to use poly bushes.
And there's more good news! Other Triumph rubber bushes can be used on these 'S' parts:-
Front Wishbone upper - 4 x Triumph 141481 1/2” ID
Front Wishbone lower - 4 x Triumph 548208 1/2” ID
The Triumph bushes from James Paddock Triumph Parts.
The 4 x Rear Trailing arms are sourced from Land Rover (5697f46 - 9/16”) but are too long off the shelf and so need cutting down to length. Make into 2 halves to make easier to push in from each side.
The Land Rover trailing arm bushes are available from John Craddock Ltd Land Rover Spares
Thanks Lee!
Apparently the damper bush from a Triumph TR6 will fit. So if you want to refurbish your old OEM units you will need:-
Shock bushes - 8 x Triumph part No. 141481 1/2” ID
So at long last it is now possible to give the OEM units a new lease of life as an economical and practical alternative to after-market units without having to use poly bushes.
And there's more good news! Other Triumph rubber bushes can be used on these 'S' parts:-
Front Wishbone upper - 4 x Triumph 141481 1/2” ID
Front Wishbone lower - 4 x Triumph 548208 1/2” ID
The Triumph bushes from James Paddock Triumph Parts.
The 4 x Rear Trailing arms are sourced from Land Rover (5697f46 - 9/16”) but are too long off the shelf and so need cutting down to length. Make into 2 halves to make easier to push in from each side.
The Land Rover trailing arm bushes are available from John Craddock Ltd Land Rover Spares
Thanks Lee!
You’re welcome, most of my posts are on PH, I only put a few on FB. You’ve probably seen my journey so far on here. I wanted to try and stay original, and it took a lot of searching and help from people on PH to eventually get a full set of rubbers, as you stated they need a bit of fettling, reworking and trimming as the rubber distorts and bulges when installing, it’s not hard to do, just not a buy, fit and go solution and requiring some bodged together tooling.
I had to take the trailing arms to a local engineers (TR Bitz, a fantastic triumph restoration company, who also helped me find the rubber bushes originally) to have the metalistic bushes pressed home (owner has a V8S ironically) as Just too much of an interference fit for my M12 threaded and socket assembly that Heath Robinson would have been proud of.
Poly is much easier to fit, but from what I’ve seen doesn’t seem to have the longevity of the rubber, and more expensive.
Lee
I had to take the trailing arms to a local engineers (TR Bitz, a fantastic triumph restoration company, who also helped me find the rubber bushes originally) to have the metalistic bushes pressed home (owner has a V8S ironically) as Just too much of an interference fit for my M12 threaded and socket assembly that Heath Robinson would have been proud of.
Poly is much easier to fit, but from what I’ve seen doesn’t seem to have the longevity of the rubber, and more expensive.
Lee
Great to meet you at last! 
I din't realise you were one in the same.
That's a great build you're completing there. I've been following your regular updates.
It also great that at long last we now have a proper alternative that bloody awful poly. I know some poly is better than others but the good stuff is pricey. Still poly has plenty of fans but for me you can't beat OEM rubber. After all, that was what all the components were designed to work with.
A shame you had those electrical problems but then that sort of thing always happens just when you think you're at the point of turning the key. Good luck for this weekend
I din't realise you were one in the same.That's a great build you're completing there. I've been following your regular updates.
It also great that at long last we now have a proper alternative that bloody awful poly. I know some poly is better than others but the good stuff is pricey. Still poly has plenty of fans but for me you can't beat OEM rubber. After all, that was what all the components were designed to work with.
A shame you had those electrical problems but then that sort of thing always happens just when you think you're at the point of turning the key. Good luck for this weekend
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v8s4me said:
Always the quiet ones. No wonder you were one of the last to leave on S Club Tours 
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