[scorpydude]

Can someone please help explain how this happens to me?




Okay so lets focus on the second pic...

The right hand side of the bracket and the bush has moved out about a full centimetre...

How on earth is that possible when the bolt that clamps together both sides of this bracket onto the crush tube inside the bushes has a nut with a spring washer on it?

The nut would have had to undo about 20 rotations? I thought the spring washer stops that from happening?

Is this normal? These bushes have only been in there for about 10 trips out

(mind you about 5 of those have been pretty insane tracks where most people were running lockers)

When I replace the ironman bushes with new ironman ones (as soon as i find a ironman stocker on the southside) ... should I also replace the bolts, spring washers and nut?

[Mattmorgo]

Are they from the iron man kit chris??

[scorpydude]

Yeah mate. Brand spanking new Ironman bushes from the new Ironman kit.

[royce]

going by the scrape marks on the spring and hanger youve bashed it on something and bent the hanger, welcome to offroad, where rocks are tougher than steel

[MrRocky]

looks a bit wide for the bush, maybe bent

[steve]

yer Chris, Sierra is a high performance vehicle, and high performance vehicles require high maintenance

[Bruce]

U can tell they are not my bushes
Most manufactures make sierra bushes too hard

[stocker]

she looks like nolethane...


maybe try a rubber bush?

Ps: 1st photo looks like you've hit it... ...hard and whambamthankyoumam there's your sign

[Bruce]

stocker wrote:

she looks like nolethane...


maybe try a rubber bush?

Ps: 1st photo looks like you've hit it... ...hard and whambamthankyoumam there's your sign

Nolethane/ polyurethane. same crap. It's just a name
There is over 48 different types of poly. From harder than a golf ball to softer than a rubber band. And all do different things. Some work better than others.
As I said, most manufactures (mass produced) use the same hardness poly for all bushes. So if you buy ones for a Landcriuser or zook you will get supplied the same hardness.

[just_cruizin]

Or a supra and a Sierra same hardness, vastly different application.

As has been said, you've hit a big rock.

Now let's play a game........

Rock beats spring
Spring beats bush
But we all like a little bush, just not too much ...... Shit wrong thread sorry

[bazook]

ive had a set of suparoo ones last me one trip they just crumpled what it was was they were old stock so the greese inside reacted with the ruber and started braking the blue nolithane down

[buzbox]

bazook wrote:

ive had a set of suparoo ones last me one trip they just crumpled what it was was they were old stock so the greese inside reacted with the ruber and started braking the blue nolithane down

As you may know grease is a petroleum based product, petrol based products deterioate rubber / plastics / poly.

That's why it is reccomended to use rubber grease, I never use the white grease the bush's come with.

[Bruce]

buzbox wrote:

bazook wrote:

ive had a set of suparoo ones last me one trip they just crumpled what it was was they were old stock so the greese inside reacted with the ruber and started braking the blue nolithane down

As you may know grease is a petroleum based product, petrol based products deterioate rubber / plastics / poly.

That's why it is reccomended to use rubber grease, I never use the white grease the bush's come with.

In what Poly bushes?

Grease containing molydisulphide is the thing to use. Castrol LMM is one.

[Plum]

LMM is the go, that's what we used at ARB when i was there....... (not any more)

[steak_knife]

Bruce wrote:

buzbox wrote:

bazook wrote:

ive had a set of suparoo ones last me one trip they just crumpled what it was was they were old stock so the greese inside reacted with the ruber and started braking the blue nolithane down

As you may know grease is a petroleum based product, petrol based products deterioate rubber / plastics / poly.

That's why it is reccomended to use rubber grease, I never use the white grease the bush's come with.

In what Poly bushes?

Grease containing molydisulphide is the thing to use. Castrol LMM is one.

I thought they were self lubricating!!! That's whar Royce told me...

Or did he tell me that so I buy more bush's off Bruce...

[Bruce]

steak_knife wrote:

Bruce wrote:

buzbox wrote:

bazook wrote:

ive had a set of suparoo ones last me one trip they just crumpled what it was was they were old stock so the greese inside reacted with the ruber and started braking the blue nolithane down

As you may know grease is a petroleum based product, petrol based products deterioate rubber / plastics / poly.

That's why it is reccomended to use rubber grease, I never use the white grease the bush's come with.

In what Poly bushes?

Grease containing molydisulphide is the thing to use. Castrol LMM is one.

I thought they were self lubricating!!! That's whar Royce told me...

Or did he tell me that so I buy more bush's off Bruce...

LOL Royce is WRONGGGGGGGGG (but I like his thinkin )
This is where poly gets a bad name. People complain that there new poly bushes make all types of strange noises
People either use the wrong grease or none at all

[steak_knife]

Bruce wrote:

steak_knife wrote:

Bruce wrote:

buzbox wrote:

bazook wrote:

ive had a set of suparoo ones last me one trip they just crumpled what it was was they were old stock so the greese inside reacted with the ruber and started braking the blue nolithane down

As you may know grease is a petroleum based product, petrol based products deterioate rubber / plastics / poly.

That's why it is reccomended to use rubber grease, I never use the white grease the bush's come with.

In what Poly bushes?

Grease containing molydisulphide is the thing to use. Castrol LMM is one.

I thought they were self lubricating!!! That's whar Royce told me...

Or did he tell me that so I buy more bush's off Bruce...

LOL Royce is WRONGGGGGGGGG (but I like his thinkin )
This is where poly gets a bad name. People complain that there new poly bushes make all types of strange noises
People either use the wrong grease or none at all

Could explain the high wear rate of the top shelf bush's i buy....

[royce]

Bruce wrote:

steak_knife wrote:

Bruce wrote:

buzbox wrote:

bazook wrote:

ive had a set of suparoo ones last me one trip they just crumpled what it was was they were old stock so the greese inside reacted with the ruber and started braking the blue nolithane down

As you may know grease is a petroleum based product, petrol based products deterioate rubber / plastics / poly.

That's why it is reccomended to use rubber grease, I never use the white grease the bush's come with.

In what Poly bushes?

Grease containing molydisulphide is the thing to use. Castrol LMM is one.

I thought they were self lubricating!!! That's whar Royce told me...

Or did he tell me that so I buy more bush's off Bruce...

LOL Royce is WRONGGGGGGGGG (but I like his thinkin )
This is where poly gets a bad name. People complain that there new poly bushes make all types of strange noises
People either use the wrong grease or none at all

You told me they were!!!!

thats it, not listening to you anymore

[Bruce]

Pigs arse little man.

[steak_knife]

Bruce wrote:

Pigs arse little man.

MMmmmmmmm, bacon.....

[2stroker]

Being old I still prefer rubber to "plastic", but I have not experienced the nolethane/ polyurethane or whatever you want to call them bushes chew out in such a short time maybe because I am very liberal with the grease when I have fitted them.

[Westie]

Careful Royce Bruce will change the locks on the shed.

Bruce you could loose your top mechanic.

Go and say sorry. Now who is the bigger man to say sorry first?????

[nato78]

just_cruizin wrote:

Or a supra and a Sierra same hardness, vastly different application.

As has been said, you've hit a big rock.

Now let's play a game........

Rock beats spring
Spring beats bush
But we all like a little bush, just not too much ...... Shit wrong thread sorry

[Moph]

Bruce wrote:

People either use the wrong grease or none at all

Ah fork it. Looks like I have to redo the bushes on my Zook then. I'd heard the whole "poly bushes are self-lubricating" before so didn't grease mine.

Is it just the inside that should be lubed, ie where the bolt goes through? Or do the outsides have to be done too? If it's only the bolt then that will make fixing my stuffup a bit easier.

[Bruce]

Moph wrote:

Bruce wrote:

People either use the wrong grease or none at all

Ah fork it. Looks like I have to redo the bushes on my Zook then. I'd heard the whole "poly bushes are self-lubricating" before so didn't grease mine.

Is it just the inside that should be lubed, ie where the bolt goes through? Or do the outsides have to be done too? If it's only the bolt then that will make fixing my stuffup a bit easier.

Grease on inside and also outside

[steak_knife]

Dam those interweb's lie's!!!!!

[missmyljdaze]

Bruce wrote:

Grease on inside and also outside

and if you are anything like me, all over the driveway, my clothes and everything between me and the bathroom sink.

probably find smears of molygrease on the back of your arm a couple of days later too

[Bruce]

missmyljdaze wrote:

Bruce wrote:

Grease on inside and also outside

and if you are anything like me, all over the driveway, my clothes and everything between me and the bathroom sink.

probably find smears of molygrease on the back of your arm a couple of days later too

[scorpydude]

missmyljdaze wrote:

probably find smears of molygrease on the back of your arm a couple of days later too

Oh so that doesn't just happen to me eh?