Poly-bushes

[Sponge Bob]

Woohoo, the full kit arrived today - so now I've got no excuse for staying out the garage!!

I've seen some info on installing these ranging from, burn the old ones out, to which direction they fit in...

So... for those who have just done this mod - have you got any time(or knuckle)-saving tips from experience???

Cheers :thumbsup:
Ash

[msherry21]

Loads of help here mate, did mine not long ago. I used a mixed gas blow torch from B&Q, about £20 I think, and remove the arms from the suspension and shove them in a vice and burn the dam things out, hold the flame at each bush till they literally start to fall apart...a good few minutes at least.

New ones go in easy enough, just use plenty of the supplied grease on the washer/tube things.

[msherry21]

A wire brush and plenty of WD40 is also a must.

[MartG]

Burning them out is much more fun than the alternatives:thumbsup:

[Jiff Lemon]

Burn baby burn.

http://www.zen38410.zen.co.uk/MR2/Swap/Begins/newchef.jpg

Also worth getting a nice big wire wheel for the drill so you can paint the arms whilst they're out.

Hollar if you get stuck. :thumbsup:

[MartG]

For full effect, do it at night ;)

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/2474/bushburningfn5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Marksman]

Cool. (Stupid language English isn't it?)

Owen.

[MartG]

(Stupid language English isn't it?)

Sure is - chuck a stone into a river, and it 'lands' in the water :freak3:

[Sponge Bob]

Sweet - I'll have to get me some more petrol then if i'm going to have to burn them all out!!

[Captain Vimes]

Just done mine and the blow torch route worked a treat, but then my boy walked molten rubber into the house and onto the carpet :-(

Only warning is to be careful not to overheard the ball joints if you've left them on the arms - pretty obvious stuff really.

[Shorty]

I found it to be helpful to have a 2 ton press. Took about 20 sec to remove them. Then i got a new job without one, and then it took me about 20 mins. I cut it up and hit it out with a hammer:) Whatever works:)

[Sponge Bob]

Just done mine and the blow torch route worked a treat, but then my boy walked molten rubber into the house and onto the carpet :-(

Only warning is to be careful not to overheard the ball joints if you've left them on the arms - pretty obvious stuff really.

Lol whoops!! I'll be removing all my suspension components, so hopefully my balls will stay cool... lol i'm in a dilema as to what colour I paint the damn bits & bobs now though!!

[lodgeman]

heres my colour mr bob

http://www.twobrutal.co.uk/forum/images/recovered/2007/08/107.jpg

just to help you choose;)

[MartG]

Oooh, roosting suspension arms lol

[Garbe]

Alan how did you clean up the bits - IIRC Lyn had hers shot blasted.

[lodgeman]

just a drill and a wire brush mate!and some paint;)

[Sponge Bob]

Hmm yellow looks good, but my cars white - so think i'll just red them up... though that'd clash with the poly bushes themselves... :( bah

[lodgeman]

yellow? thats gold mate!!gold 24carat plated ;) with hammeritelol goes with the sherwood toning colour scheme -thats why i did it that colour!;)

[Sponge Bob]

Lol... I love goooooollllld...!! Can't beat a bit of hammerite - will have a look in the shop and see which colour takes my fancy hehe

[MartG]

Hmm yellow looks good, but my cars white - so think i'll just red them up... though that'd clash with the poly bushes themselves... :( bah

Blue :thumbsup:

[rattymr2]

nice to see Bob and Mart are talking again:blabla:

[Sponge Bob]

Lol... I might do some sort of paint mock up to see what blue looks like...! Could work if the blue is blue enough :)

[MartG]

I did the brakes and exhaust on my old Mk2 in Plastikote Metallic Blue - looked :thumbsup:

[msherry21]

I went with random colours that don't match anything!

http://www.twobrutal.co.uk/forum/images/recovered/2007/01/160.jpg

[Sponge Bob]

I saw those and they look lush mate...!!

[splintermcinnes]

Oooooooh shiney!! this is another thing on my list, but the car is my daily driver so cant really have it off the road for long! but polly bushes and a lick of paint would be some more under side bling to go with the painted subframe and trailing arms!

how much is it for a Mk2 full set of bushes?

Cheers

Matt

[msherry21]

I had mine powdercoated, just as another layer of protection, I think a full bush set is around £100 for the mk2, twosrus.co.uk will sort you out though.

[splintermcinnes]

100quid, is that for front and back? is that all??? when i had my old Mk2 fiesta :hidesbehi a full set of polly bushes for that was like 250quid!!

[msherry21]

£114.00 to be exact,just checked.

[Jiff Lemon]

I went with random colours that don't match anything!

Ahhh, the old "too many old tins of paint left in the shed" look! lol

[msherry21]

Thats the one Jiff, you don't see any of the arms anyway once on the car.

[Marksman]

Not unless you end up upside down in the kitty litter anyway :whistle:

Owen.

[msherry21]

ok, so I will seem them then.....alot!

[Marksman]

Well you might not but all the people pointing and laughing will. :woods:

Owen.

[msherry21]

Sorry Owen, we're thinking about mk2's again!

[Marksman]

No, no, no, those monkeys only gracefully slide backwards into things, to crash with originality requires a MK1, preferably one with rather more under then engine cover than Toyota intended!

O.S.