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