Trailing arm bushes

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#1 Post by **Forkie** » Sun Apr 17, 2016 7:06 pm

Ok. So iv'e cleared all the 7 year ish old c**p from around the car,gathered up my bits and my thoughts,booked me some time off and 'phoned and booked a friend ' for a hand for the end of the upcoming week to get the assembly back up.

So some prepping required i.e. my first job,which I attempted today,was to re-bush the trailing arms. No luck at all. Following A.C.'s excellent 'how to do',i some how knew I was going to have an issue.

The bushes are C.W. Superflex. Used the supplied grease,Fairy at the entry point,and after attempt #1 soaked the bush in hot water. Not happening. All that's happening is the opposing end is crushing. Will not start pulling through. I'm happy with my puller set up - it SHOULD work. any ideas?

#2 Post by **Alan Chatterton** » Sun Apr 17, 2016 8:57 pm

Clean the inside of the trailing arms where the bushes go. Then lube with some grease.

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#3 Post by **Forkie** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 6:12 pm

They are spotless. Even been spray lacquered in a booth!! ( obviously not inside the bush tubes). Taking a set round a friends shortly,see what he comes up with. Will try the grease but I would of thought fairy would of done it! Frustrating....

iggy · #4 Post by **iggy** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 6:19 pm

hi i cleaned out the inside of the trailing arms with wire wool put the grease
in and forced the superflex bushes in using the large vice on my work bench just
lined the bush up with the hole in the trailing arm and kept winding the handle on
the vice up easer to do with to people though, and i did think it would destroy the bush
but no it just popped in with alot of force

#5 Post by **CAR** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 7:35 am

I used a vice in the same way as that. Worked fine.

Colin

#6 Post by **Mike Stevens** » Wed Apr 20, 2016 12:36 pm

I assume you are fitting the SS tube after pressing the bush in?

Like the others, I've just pushed them in with a lot of lubrication. It does take a bit of force and guts!

Cheers,
Mike.

#7 Post by **Forkie** » Wed Apr 20, 2016 8:18 pm

Hi Mike. Yes, no tube at the start,to be fitted after

. Well maybe I worry too much but I had put some force to it - stripped my 10mm bar so moved up to a 12mm and still nothing doing,other than the 'free ' end folding

. Well I ended up leaving it with my mate - he took one look at it and retorted ' That 'aint going in there'. He reckons it would take a miracle to fit something that is a snug tight fit PLUS the extra 5mm or so end section,with the black poly construction. Rubber,maybe. But the super hard poly....Well I'm starting the rebuild in the morning so something has to give!!!

#8 Post by **Mike Stevens** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 11:38 am

I made a 'void bush remover/replacer' some years ago from a design in the SoC magazine. Basically a tube with an end cap and a threaded rod going through it. That managed the OEM parts, some uprated rubber parts and the poly ones OK, but it was a bit of a struggle. The threaded rod did get a bit mangled though. The advantage of the tube is that the bush can't 'bell' out when it gets loaded so more likely to go into the trailing arm.

I'm sure you'll get it sorted!

Cheers,
Mike.

pete lewis · #9 Post by **pete lewis** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 8:08 pm

Question have got the correct bushes ??

Did the same on the car with the aid of various sockets washers and studding,
these were the blue from CW and witha little squirming and squashing they popped through with relative ease
dragging the old out was a lot more challenging

check the tracking once youve finished

pete

#10 Post by **Clifford Pope** » Fri Apr 22, 2016 12:59 pm

CW has changed the design surely? When I did these bushes some years ago they came in two tapered halves, and were yellow. The two halves popped in easily, and the sleeve was an easy push-fit. It just needed a G-clamp to squeeze the bushes a bit as they engaged with the brackets, and the job was done apart from lining up the holes with a screwdriver or spiked rod.

I do recall the entire job was nothing like as difficult as everyone was saying. No dismantling was necessary. I put a jack under the arm, lifeted the car a bit, but blocks under the jacking point, pulled out the pins, lowered the suspension a few inches, drilled out the old rubber bushes, cleaned up a bit, and put the new bushes in as above, jacking the arm back up into alignment.

By tracking, you mean the rear tracking? If you haven't played with the shims behind the brackets that won't be altered surely?

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