Help!!!!! 2wd rear trailing arm bushes

[cosmo]

The secret is to powder coat the beam but to paint the arms so you don't have to disturb the bushes.

Ps the GGR price for the 4 bushes is still far less than finding and fitting a new rear quarter panel

[Billy_RS]

I think I'll have to risk it and fit the dreaded polys.

Refuse to pay nearly £400 for 4 bushes. How ridiculous

Better start looking for quarter panels now then

[TREVCOS]

Will drastically affect the handling so that you will HATE the car (it will allow the beam to move around and steer the car as the poly bushes compress). Basically the OE / GGR ones are rose-jointed style bushes (the rubber you see is just to protect them from dirt ingress, which is the bain of all rose joints). If your existing ones are not worn and you don't want to replace them with new ones, then you have no choice but to press out your old ones and then refit them once the powder-coating has been done (as the high temps involved in the powder coating will destroy the rubber protection).

Mike, I'm sure you've told me before but which bushes wouldn't you replace from the originals with Powerflex bushes on the Escort, was this just the big rear beam bushes or some of the others too? I'm going to be setting about mine soon and don't want to fit anything that's going to make it worse than it was before.

[Joe-Tait]

Burton power do remanufactured replacements to ford spec now £80 a piece

[grcossie]

I have found some bearings on some Saab`s who is nearly dimension as the smallest on cossie. Only need a little shim on the bolt, as the senter is a little shorter. It`s possalible to find other who fits on the biggest one also, as there is other cars, who use same type of bearings, and they are alot cheaper

[the youth]

if your careful you can remove the rubber covers on the outside of the bushes, then clean all the grease then powdercoat the beam regrease then refit the covers
the bushes look like this with the covers removed



steve

[iain]

I'm in the same boat going to have to order them this week £335 for 4 bushes is a sore one

[b0bbyb0y]

Looks like a lot on here doing these bushes, including me, how often do most people change these??

[Dave]

Once you change them they pretty much last forever, I imagine that's why they were discontinued as Ford probably never sold any. The only reason people want them nowadays is because they're obsessed with powder coating the underside

[Mark King]

I don't understand why people skimp on brakes and suspension. Do you want to have an accident? I know there expensive but that's cosworth life.

[Mike Rainbird]

Mike, I'm sure you've told me before but which bushes wouldn't you replace from the originals with Powerflex bushes on the Escort, was this just the big rear beam bushes or some of the others too? I'm going to be setting about mine soon and don't want to fit anything that's going to make it worse than it was before.

It's just the four trailing arm bushes - you can change the main beam bushes and ARB bushes .

[Billy_RS]

I don't understand why people skimp on brakes and suspension. Do you want to have an accident? I know there expensive but that's cosworth life.

Skimp?! Lol!

It's a ford sierra, not a bloody Ferrari F40!

I just refuse to be extorted. So I'll have to make do with polys in there.

[James @ Auto Dynamix]

Im about to refirb a rear beam for mine, Just one of those things really certainly not worth going a route which you know is not right and will lead to problems,

£400 is a fair amount, but wouldnt even get you a wing mirror glass for most new BMWs
And i bet if that £400 gained you some power you wouldnt think twice about spending it

[Mike Rainbird]

Skimp?! Lol!

It's a ford sierra, not a bloody Ferrari F40!

I just refuse to be extorted. So I'll have to make do with polys in there.

It's not a matter of being extorted - the original ones from Ford were a very similar price LOL.

At the end of the day, you'll ruin the handling of the car - but that is up to you.

[cossiedavid]

I got two good outer ones if you need them billy £50 the pair