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Urethane suspension bushes
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Urethane suspension bushes
Who has had problems with Urethane bushes as i replaced all the bushes in my 80Ute with them and they keep chopping out (all the control arm bushes in less than 3000 KM's) the panard bushes wore then had big time front end shakes. Gone back to factory bushes on the panard and its a different 4B to drive im now going to go back to factory bushes in all the suspension control arms as im spending lots of $$$$ and time on the Urethane crap.
Wally
Wally
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Joined: Wed Nov 06, 2002 8:42 pm
Joined: Wed Nov 06, 2002 8:42 pm
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If you need articulation off road you cant beat rubber. When the urethane first came out it was pushed to Rangie owners as a way to tighten up the handling. It works great until you go off road and then chops out and limits travel. Those of us that use the Rangies off road wont touch urethane at all.
Goo the rubber....
Urethane is hard, unforgiving and damned noisy. I had Urethane bushes in the front of my radii arms and even mounting a gutter has a noisy affair.. Went and got plates + genuine rubber bushes and = more flex and no noise...Rubber has better memory ie; the holes return to centre.... My old man had urethane in his rangie and they were just chewed out to buggery you could move the front arms around with your hand... dangerous....
Gradually rebushing entire care w/ genuine nissan rubber. Apparently you can get aboot 30 degrees of misalligment with the suckers.... stick a screwdriver in one and move it around... you'll see.
They only application urethane is good for in my eyes is... coil spacers... even then I look twice at the things....
Urethane = devil... lol
Urethane is hard, unforgiving and damned noisy. I had Urethane bushes in the front of my radii arms and even mounting a gutter has a noisy affair.. Went and got plates + genuine rubber bushes and = more flex and no noise...Rubber has better memory ie; the holes return to centre.... My old man had urethane in his rangie and they were just chewed out to buggery you could move the front arms around with your hand... dangerous....
Gradually rebushing entire care w/ genuine nissan rubber. Apparently you can get aboot 30 degrees of misalligment with the suckers.... stick a screwdriver in one and move it around... you'll see.
They only application urethane is good for in my eyes is... coil spacers... even then I look twice at the things....
Urethane = devil... lol
[quote="MSCHIF"]SPUA its like shaving a barbie dolls head, amusing but pointless.[/quote]
had urethane in our rangie for years. Awesome on road handling. 1st Set lasted 7 years, somewhere between 50-100K Klms. Onto second set. Probably restict articulation a bit, but with 4.6, motec computer, f& R diff locks and jacked good suspension, we can still do most stuff. Well, so far never been stopped doing tracks and the like, done a lot to....
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