rubber suspension bushes
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- Hard Yaka
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rubber suspension bushes
hi all
i'm lifting my truck and making longer trailing arms and panhard rods to suit the lift. need to replace all my suspension bushes anyway so good time to do them when its all in bits.
cant believe how hard it is to find rubber bushes. can anyone point me in the right direction? anything online? dont want to go polyurethane as they stiffen your suspension up and that's the opposite of what i'm trying to achieve. best i've found is leading arms and panhards out of aussie but they don't do trailing arms.
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cheers
i'm lifting my truck and making longer trailing arms and panhard rods to suit the lift. need to replace all my suspension bushes anyway so good time to do them when its all in bits.
cant believe how hard it is to find rubber bushes. can anyone point me in the right direction? anything online? dont want to go polyurethane as they stiffen your suspension up and that's the opposite of what i'm trying to achieve. best i've found is leading arms and panhards out of aussie but they don't do trailing arms.
89 swb gq y60 saf
cheers
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- Hard Yaka
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Re: rubber suspension bushes
cheers but that's just Toyota stuff. leading arms fit but after all my other bushes too
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Re: rubber suspension bushes
As painful as it sounds when I did mine I found that the only real option that I found was to get genuine Nissan ones
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Re: rubber suspension bushes
If your making new trailing arms, could you not build them around surf rear link bushes or something similar that is real common? Or is that a pain in the arse (ie were you not planning to change chassis mount etc?)
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Re: rubber suspension bushes
try don kyatts in manukau city
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- Hard Yaka
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Re: rubber suspension bushes
Thanks will try some of those options. Yeah don't want to mess with chassis mounts ideally will see what I can drum up first
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Re: rubber suspension bushes
Got ya. So you are doing a MWB conversion?
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Re: rubber suspension bushes
no just doing a 3" lift and want to extend the trailing arms and panhards to get the wheels back where they should be. not sure what is involved in a mwb conversion or the benefits to be honest
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Yeah sorry. Dumb questions on my part. I should have re-read your first post.
A MWB conversion is fairly drastic. People push the rear axle back 300 mm (ish) to make them climb better and be more stable at speed. I assumed you were doing something like this an hence were making new trailing arms.
A MWB conversion is fairly drastic. People push the rear axle back 300 mm (ish) to make them climb better and be more stable at speed. I assumed you were doing something like this an hence were making new trailing arms.
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Re: rubber suspension bushes
Checkerhead wrote:Yeah sorry. Dumb questions on my part. I should have re-read your first post.
A MWB conversion is fairly drastic. People push the rear axle back 300 mm (ish) to make them climb better and be more stable at speed. I assumed you were doing something like this an hence were making new trailing arms.
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Re: rubber suspension bushes
Terrano bushes fit & are cheaper part #N550460W001
Re: rubber suspension bushes
mudtroll wrote:Terrano bushes fit & are cheaper part #N550460W001
Rockauto.com sell rubber ones (albeit aftermarket) and they ship internationally. It will be under 1987-95 Nissan Pathfinder.
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Re: rubber suspension bushes
Wouldn't recommend aftermarket bushes, my radius arm bushes lasted less than 6 months before they were stuffed and had to be replaced, The genuine ones are still sweet. Same with the trailing arms they lasted a bit longer but still only got just over a year and a half, The genuine stuff is worth the coin.
Re: rubber suspension bushes
If the Terrano ones are the same cochram Nissan sell them on trademe 220 for the set of 8 genuine bushes
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