[Poly bushes and leaf springs]

On 5/20/2009 at 6:53 PM, Phil Hancock said:

All this talk about having to add washers between the bushes and the swinging shackles, when i had my genuine orange polys from Chris Perfect they came with the washers for the swinging shackles.

 

On 5/19/2009 at 10:35 PM, tony109 said:

Mine are Deflex Bushes also..

I did have to get longer center Bush pins, otherwise the shackles would clamp on the Bush flanges before clamping on the center pins themselves. This leaves the center bush pins are free to turn inside the bushes. I added washers between the swinging shackles and the bushes to prevent cutting by the shackles and spread loads.

Polys' should last alot longer than the bonded rubber bushes, but the ride is virtually the same.

I went for the poly bush (Deflex) option as with a Galvanized chassis, fitting the original bonded rubber/Steel bushes would have meant honing of the bush tubes in the chassis, and I didn't want to remove any galvanizing and compromise the Zinc protection with rushing steel bush sleaves.

Hi there Tony I’m away to fit poly bushes on my 109 as Im doing a complete restoration and jw where you managed to get longer center bush pins from 

Thanks Olly