[rob_macca67]

Just inquiring if anyone has replaced the Rubber Mounting Bushes on the Helm Joint above the Rear Diff on a Vitara

What type of Bushes go in there.... They look very similar to your normal Shackle Bushes.....

rob

[atari4x4]

if your talking about the ball joint, it's a non serviceable item as far as I'm aware... but

can I please just say this & it's been shitting me for years, the standard Vitara does not run a HEIM joint, it uses a similar set up to a ball joint.... so many people get this part wrong, the Calmini kit uses a Rod End/Heim Joint/Rose Joint.

I blame ODA for having the incorrect info on his website.

[Fatzook]

Do you mean Heim joint?

This is a Heim Joint


You would need to fabricate a new upper a-frame to house one of these.

[rob_macca67]

atari4x4 wrote:

if your talking about the ball joint, it's a non serviceable item as far as I'm aware... but

can I please just say this & it's been shitting me for years, the standard Vitara does not run a HEIM joint, it uses a similar set up to a ball joint.... so many people get this part wrong, the Calmini kit uses a Rod End/Heim Joint/Rose Joint.

I blame ODA for having the incorrect info on his website.

I'm not talking about the ball-joint end, but the other end, where it attaches to the cross member/chassis. The bushes where it swings from. These appear to be worn on mine.....

[rob_macca67]

Fatzook wrote:

Do you mean Heim joint?

This is a Heim Joint


You would need to fabricate a new upper a-frame to house one of these.

Pete... Do u have any of these made up. If so, would b greatly interested

[atari4x4]

A Arm bushes is what you're after, the calmini A Arm runs a shackle type bush, pretty sure the original ones are a press fit bonded rubber bush.

[rob_macca67]

atari4x4 wrote:

A Arm bushes is what you're after, the calmini A Arm runs a shackle type bush, pretty sure the original ones are a press fit bonded rubber bush.

Cheers for that... U don't know where I can get one of those Calmini Arms only from ???
From what I've been told, u need to buy the whole kit.....

[Fatzook]

rob_macca67 wrote:

atari4x4 wrote:

A Arm bushes is what you're after, the calmini A Arm runs a shackle type bush, pretty sure the original ones are a press fit bonded rubber bush.

Cheers for that... U don't know where I can get one of those Calmini Arms only from ???
From what I've been told, u need to buy the whole kit.....

PM'd.

[tombutt]

I have a full rear bush kit coming for my extended arms and new a arm that fatpuke has made me as I was over trying to replace those ball joint arms