Bush installation - driving me crazy!

jules · Postby **jules** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:57 am

Have any of you guys experienced squeaking with all these Nolothane bushes?

Jules

MXkal · Postby **MXkal** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 6:05 pm

absalutely none at all. Rubber would tend to squeek moreso than urathane, Rubber ones squeek when pushing them out

Fatty · Postby **Fatty** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 6:17 pm

jules wrote:Have any of you guys experienced squeaking with all these Nolothane bushes?

Jules

the bushes are supplied with some "lube". then you're meant to re-apply lube after a couple of years.

MXkal · Postby **MXkal** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 6:21 pm

the main reason for this lube is to aid pressing the new bushes in, The inside of my bushes was cross-hatched/textured so the crush sleeve would be able to move with minimal friction, Also the crosshatch holds the grease inbetween the crush sleeve and the bush so you dont squeeze it all out when pushing the sleeve inside the bush.

jules · Postby **jules** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:30 am

MXkal wrote:absalutely none at all. Rubber would tend to squeek moreso than urathane, Rubber ones squeek when pushing them out

Can't agree with this unfortunately. If the poly gets dry it should squeak worse than a field of mice.

Jules

ampz · Postby **ampz** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:26 pm

Yeah they squeak.

Ky lasts a while in my experience, 7 months so far (i didn't have anything else at hand and didn't want to use petroleum jelly for fear of degradation to the poly). :mrgreen:

As for the front Bushes removal and installation, i found it easier to separate the tie rod end from the steering arm (push it out with a steering wheel puller) then remove the two arms (upper and lower) attached to the ball joints as one assembly and work on them outside the car.

Total removal/Assembly time about 1 1/2 hours.

bruce · Postby **bruce** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:39 pm

KY !!!

MXkal · Postby **MXkal** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 6:29 pm

when i did mine i took off upper control arm, put new bushes in that then bolted it back on and did lower. That way i didnt have to take off the hub

ampz · Postby **ampz** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 9:17 pm

I never said the hub came off.
I removed the brake caliper and pulled all of it out at once. :mrgreen:

So to remove brake caliper bracket 5 minutes.
Remove steering arm tie rod end with puller 10 minutes.
Remove 2 lower arm bolts 10 minutes.
Remove upper arm bolt 5 minutes.

So 1/2 hour to remove the whole assembly.

and about an hour to reinstall (including heating and massaging the arm back straight after a brain explosion on the press) :oops:

MXkal · Postby **MXkal** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 9:20 pm

ahh i see. I think im very lucky i didnt bend an arm. I used my car hoist and lowerd the hoist down on the arm with a socket on the bush, the mx5 was still on the hoist so it gave it some extra help lol.

ampz · Postby **ampz** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:40 am

That is lucky :shock:

The press didn't really flinch whenit compressed the arm!

It came out good, we used a bit of heat and a scissor jack to straighten it again :mrgreen:

It was Stefans car and it never drives in a straight line anyway

(Hides)

jules · Postby **jules** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:01 am

Bwahahaha

Jules

MXkal · Postby **MXkal** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:45 pm

Oh and the end links i used a hole saw to drill out the bush and then just cleaned the rest of the rubber out with a wire brush in the drill.

StanTheMan · Postby **StanTheMan** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:55 pm

ampz wrote:That is lucky

The press didn't really flinch whenit compressed the arm!

It came out good, we used a bit of heat and a scissor jack to straighten it again

It was Stefans car and it never drives in a straight line anyway

(Hides)

ROFLMHO.....there is a pic of that somewhere. :lol: