Front suspension rubber bushes and hardware shopping list
Front suspension rubber bushes and hardware shopping list
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BlueWedgy

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435 posts

121 months

Yesterday (09:16)
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After the MOT this year, the MOT guy said the bushes were not great, due to oil starting to degrade them.

So on with the winter to do list, that is very long.

I am not after poly bushes, just standard rubber.
I have stumbled around a bit trying to identify (see picture) what is what and what cars to look at, not really getting anywhere fast.
Seems as time goes on these bits are rarer and rarer.

Any pointers as to what car/s may be used here would be good or places that do not break the bank that have the rubbers and hardware.

Wedg1e

26,959 posts

284 months

Yesterday (12:26)
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The upper and lower arms and the tie rod bushes are all ex-Cortina.
Originals for the arms were by Boge but you'll do well to find those nowadays (and if you do they're probably 40 years old).

You can get the arm bushes as pattern parts, I replaced mine a few years ago although I wasn't convinced the Boge ones were actually that bad - put another way, I didn't think the pattern ones were that good grumpy
The tie rod bushes were originally two different densities of rubber and were supposed to be installed in a particular order (for compression and rebound I think); the polybush purveyors conveniently overlook this.

The drop-link bushes used to be hard to come by; the only time I ever used poly they were the ones I replaced but they very quickly distorted under load and I've never bothered changing them since.

mrzigazaga

18,686 posts

184 months

Yesterday (17:29)
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Have a look on here...you may not find the top and bottom wishbone bushes on their site but maybe on the Motomobil...
https://motaclan.com/product-category/tvr/tvr-tasm...

Bit of searching needed here, you might need to buy the complete wishbone and fitted bushes....
https://www.motomobil.com/en



Hope this helps

Mark smile