UPGRADED the lower control arm bushings, the a-arm bushings Options

[garin]

you like? lol i dig mine... gotta hit me up when youre home.

[Tigawoods]

well they LOOK good haha
car isnt back down yet.
Ill be back in the area the 24th till after new years

[garin]

ok you have my number lol. hope to cya then.

[njccmd2002]

another option, but higher price???

http://www.polybush.co.uk/shop/view/676_To...-_1999%29_ST202

vs the original

http://www.gt4-racing.eu/index.php/toyota-...spension-bushes

[jordisonjr]

Has anyone had issues with these wearing out fairly quickly?
I installed min July 2011 (by the looks of of it, from my posts in this thread) and last night discovered that on the driver side wheel, the bushing towards the back of the car has quite a bit of play, and is causing a huge clunking noise. You can actually see the wheel move forward and back within the wheel well while accelerating and stopping, and I can recreate the sound/movement by simply shaking the wheel front to back with my hands, with the cars weight on the wheels. And I'm pretty frustrated that these are worn already.

When I replaced them, I torched out the existing bushing (leaving the ring inside the arm) and brought it to a mechanic to press in the new bushing. I'm not sure if the ring was left in the arm, or taken out, but from the looks of it, everyone that's done these bushings have taken the ring out. I also did NOT use the OEM crush tube within the bushing as Tigawoods did, but it seems no one else did either. Could either of these two things cause extra movement in the arm or per-mature wear? Or were the bushings just installed wrong? Right now it seems the rear bushing is the only one moving, but I've yet to put the car in the air and inspect closer.

I did a quick visual inspection, and the bushing appears to be intact, and not cracked or torn, so I'm a little confused as to why this would be causing noise after about 3.5-4 summers of regular driving and no track use. Any insight would be great, as I'd like to avoid replacing these bushings again. And if they do need replacing already, I will probably be going back to OEM which, IIRC, cost about 500 CDN, and not something I'd really like to do either.

[richee3]

I'm not a huge fan of my poly bushings. I'm on my second set. I had my doubts whether the first set was worn out or not so I got new control arms and bushings and no change. I sent my old set up to bloodMoney and now he says he hears them clicking.

[jordisonjr]

I'm not a huge fan of my poly bushings. I'm on my second set. I had my doubts whether the first set was worn out or not so I got new control arms and bushings and no change. I sent my old set up to bloodMoney and now he says he hears them clicking.

Hmm Really? How long did you have your first set in for? So when the first set wore out, you bought new control arms, and new poly bushings, and there was still noise?

I liked the feel of them when originally installed, but if they're going to wear out that fast its not worth it. I'm surprised at how quick this happened, is it started out as a clunk very randomly, and got louder over about 2 - 3 weeks, and then one day I had to brake fairly hard and there was a pop, and now there's a consistent clunk upon braking/acceleration. Perhaps a bolt has broken or something, but I'm going to tear into it Wednesday and update this thread with what I find.

Perhaps we were all a little quick to give praise to these bushings, as there really had been no long term reliability demonstrated out of them when this thread was originally started.

This post has been edited by jordisonjr: Aug 11, 2015 - 11:21 AM

[jordisonjr]

Well, I'm still driving the car normally, and so far so good.
I wouldn't say been driving aggressively, but I definitely have not been taking it easy, and no issues as of yet.

[njccmd2002]

I did use the crash tubes. Twice. Silver and black car. But the vert is down...