Drag Strut Bush Failure

Drag Strut Bush Failure

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LLantrisant

1,002 posts

165 months

Saturday 16th September 2023
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mrniceguy351 said:
Are these the type of rubber bushes you have to remove with a blowtorch?
yes and No....Metalastik Bushes can sit quite firm...in most cases you can press them out (using a good vice or a press)....if they emain stuck, you may need to apply heat.

Flatplane8

1,515 posts

268 months

Tuesday 17th September
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Hi,

Has there been any recent experience of the replacement rubber bushes? I'm stripping my car down and could replace all the suspension bushes (the car has done about 175k miles...) but they look fine to me so far. I'd not want to replace serviceable original ones with lower quality replacements. I'm not keen on poly bushes for various reasons described earlier in the thread. My personal experience of them is that they don't last as long as you'd like (but perhaps I had a bad set many year ago on another car).

Thanks,

Simon

BritishTvr450

319 posts

5 months

Tuesday 17th September
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You could spend many hours removing them to find standard replacements feel exactly the same.
If they have managed that kind of mileage I’d tend to leave well alone.

On the Chimaera the top differential bush is often replaced because the metalastic one failed but I tend to think that’s because that particular car has been abused in the past with someone drag racing or doing donuts and drifting the car which puts huge strain on the Dif bushes where as car car driven with sympathy they will last indefinitely or the mounting bolts have come slightly loose causing unnecessary twist on the bush.

Flatplane8

1,515 posts

268 months

Tuesday 17th September
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BritishTvr450 said:
You could spend many hours removing them to find standard replacements feel exactly the same.
If they have managed that kind of mileage I’d tend to leave well alone.

On the Chimaera the top differential bush is often replaced because the metalastic one failed but I tend to think that’s because that particular car has been abused in the past with someone drag racing or doing donuts and drifting the car which puts huge strain on the Dif bushes where as car car driven with sympathy they will last indefinitely or the mounting bolts have come slightly loose causing unnecessary twist on the bush.
Thanks for the reply, I'm thinking the same about a number of areas of the car, but will check all these components out before I decide. My diff bushes are already poly (installed by APM many years ago) and I'll keep those.