Another build thread

[james3004]

That's good news!

You'll be back on the road in no time!

[skov]

Not sure about no time, spoke to Dan at Gillham the other day and he's a bit snowed under with body work orders at the moment, so might have a bit of a wait
I will be getting a nice shiny new bonnet though

[james3004]

Does that mean I get a dodgy old one

[skov]

Yep, yours if you want it James!
I'm going to keep hold of it until I've got the new body work fitted, but you're welcome to it after that.

[skov]

With my car in bits and nothing else to do I thought I may as well tackle my sticky bushes.
My suspension's been creaky and squeaky and suffered from excessive stiction since day one. Had hoped it'd bed in over time, but 2000 miles on that was starting to look unlikely!

So over the weekend I stripped all the bushes out, cleaned off the dried out copper grease (in hindsight this was probably the wrong grease to use...) and replaced it with some JCB branded lithium based grease I had lying around. Had planned to use molybdenum grease but couldn't find my tube of it

Before doing that though I trimmed a mm or so off the outside face of each bush (using an angle grinder ).
I think the main problem was that the standard bushes were too wide and were getting crushed against the suspension bracket when the bolts were tightened. Now they've been trimmed down it's only the crush tube that's being crushed, which is probably how it should be!
The result is I've now got vastly improved, silky smooth, noise free, suspension movement, which I'm very happy about

[CTWV50]

Originally Posted by skov

With my car in bits and nothing else to do I thought I may as well tackle my sticky bushes.
My suspension's been creaky and squeaky and suffered from excessive stiction since day one. Had hoped it'd bed in over time, but 2000 miles on that was starting to look unlikely!

So over the weekend I stripped all the bushes out, cleaned off the dried out copper grease (in hindsight this was probably the wrong grease to use...) and replaced it with some JCB branded lithium based grease I had lying around. Had planned to use molybdenum grease but couldn't find my tube of it

Before doing that though I trimmed a mm or so off the outside face of each bush (using an angle grinder ).
I think the main problem was that the standard bushes were too wide and were getting crushed against the suspension bracket when the bolts were tightened. Now they've been trimmed down it's only the crush tube that's being crushed, which is probably how it should be!
The result is I've now got vastly improved, silky smooth, noise free, suspension movement, which I'm very happy about

A job I'll have to get too at some point.

[alga]

Originally Posted by skov

The result is I've now got vastly improved, silky smooth, noise free, suspension movement, which I'm very happy about

I had the same. First I assembled the bushes with the help of some silicone spray. The result was a suspension that was binding and creaking horribly. Then I greased the bushes with lithium grease (Motul TechGrease) and shaved a bit from the longer bush tubes. The creaking was gone, and the suspension got significantly softer.

[skov]

Took a little longer than they promised, but I got my settlement cheque today
Time to start shopping!

[skov]

...and that's my shopping done!

[james3004]

Yay! Bet you're a happy chappy