Searching the archives I see that bushes provoke a rather heated debate at times, but here goes...

My bush tubes are shorter than the metalastic bushes by about 1.5 mm. Is this ok? Do I need to shorten the bushes. Do I need to weld on longer tubes?

On a related subject - when I started the build I was just going from the book hence 26mm OD bush tubes for bushes with a 3/8 ID. Now I see that just about everyone uses 7/16 bolts at least. Will 3/8 be strong enough for "ordinary" use?

Cheers
Dave

My understanding is that the crush tubes should be slightly longer than the bushing itself, I would sell em and buy the right ones.

Wouldn't even bother trying to weld bits on the end.

Just my opinion

Rich

ere we go again

Ah....

bush tubes........

I might take a short holiday......

cheers

Chris

The outer tubes on the wishbone arms are shorter than the bushes. The inner tubes are the same as the rubber.
Dave

1: If your bushes are metallastic then they should be a press fit into the bush tubes on your wishbone and it won't matter a bit that the bush is slightly longer than the bush tube.

2: The bolt should fit the bush properly, so if the bush has a 3/8" hole use a 3/8" bolt (which is more than adequate) or if the bush has a bigger hole use a bigger bolt.

3: If your using poly bushes ignore all of that!!!!

The rest of you learn to read properly

[Edited on 23/4/07 by daviep]

Thanks everyone.

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Originally posted by panichat
My bush tubes are shorter than the metalastic bushes by about 1.5 mm.

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