hello , Just wondering weather there would be any benefits in trying to get the drop link bushes and the bushes which atach it to the lower arm made out of polyurethene or would i be wasting my time. Thanks

I would reckon there would be a benefit,as the oe ones do wear out and get soft,therefor not doing the work as they should.
If polyurethene bushes improve the wishbones,which we all know they do,they should help the droplinks too, ok no where near as obvious in the sense that you they are not `abused` as much,especially with higher power coupes, but if you are cornering faster too,I would guess the drop links will come under more strain.

The one that is fitted `into` the top of drop link does not wear too quickly...........but the ones that go above and below the wishbone.........wear out at an alarming rate.....and give a feeling of looseness in the suspension and can cause it to `clunk` about

I have them. I made some up myself on a lathe. but i bet if you look under the powerflex universal bushes you could find something that fits.

I'm sure dink made himself some up. Should be easy enough to do if you have a lathe and can find yourself a chunk of PU.

that's what i have

Well ??? did they make any noticeable differece

Compared to new OE ones, no they don't but as said they don't wear as fast and resist to almost all substances like oil, salt, etc.

not wearing as fast, is what I thought,did you do the lower `doughnuts` on the droplinks, that fit above/under the wishbones,as they wear pretty damn quickly

I bought new OE droplinks and only did the doughnuts. Diden't make bushes for the ones in the droplinks.

I found that when you secure the nut to the bottom of the drop link bush, all you do is push the metal insert upwards and therefore you are forcing the rubber downwards making the rubber come away from the metal insert when cornering.

All I did was put a large washer under the bush and then tightened up the nut, it did actually make a difference and appeared to improve things a bit, but this is just on OE bushes, not uprated ones.

Mark

Ok so seems it might be worth doing, would like to put a PO bush in the part of the drop link that fastens to the ARB aswell, was pondering the other day how to make a bush and thought I could use a wood lathe if I could some polyurethene, so where do I get polyurethne then?

Edited to say , will have to look at the universal bushes that powerflex make to see if anything matches or even if they would do a group buy

mine has them as standard !

Dink what shape of tool bit did you use, did you mount a blade? Gave up trying to turn PU for torsion reaction link on the engine, luckily the OD of the PU bar was similar so a bit of press fitting got me round that.

ric

yes i used a knife tool but the trick is to put the bar in the freezer

Yes we had it in liquid nitrogen, any chance of a picture of your tool, many thanks.

rich

Sorry couldn't resist

You shouldn't ask a men to show his tool like that!