Guys,
Tales of woe here

Long story short - oil leaks from the D1 engine are falling onto the
driver's side pan head bushing and rotting the rubber
in 3 months and then the steering goes to heck.

Garage keeps putting in rubber bushings.

Does anyone have a part number for polyurethane pan head bushings?

I gotta get those in.
Wife is saying "new car again".

All because of a garage putting in inferior parts.

Found this link from my last tale of woe on this same subject..

How to replace?
special tools needed?


Lucky8 Llc. - Take the road less traveled...

Thanks guys,
J

 

Just ordered these from Lucky8.
Any tips for putting them in -
I will be out in the parking lot.

Your order summary

DescriptionsAmount

1.  
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     • Polybush - Discovery I, RRC from 19…Polybush - Discovery I, RRC from 1986 Defender from 1993 Front Radius Arm to Chassis Bushing Kit- Comfort - GAL118B$33.00
     • Item price: $33.00
     • Quantity: 1

• Item total $33.00
• Shipping and handling: $12.00

• Total $45.00 USD

 

Well, ordering the correct part will help a lot on installation. According to post 2 you ordered radius arm bushings, according to post 1 you need panhard rod bushings.

 

What Tom said. ^
Also, fix the oil leak.

 

Thanks for the catch guys.
Just put in another order for panhard GAL114B
bushings.

Hopefully the oil will not rot these.

How hard is it to put these in?
I have not done front end work in years.

Just cylinder heads and all that.


I'll be glad if the steering holds out this time more than three months...

 

I would imagine your radius arm bushings are probably just as bad. Must be a heck of an oil leak to make your bushings to bad that fast. I am inclined to believe that you have something more going on with your steering components.

With that being said, I just replaced all of my suspension bushes with polybush. Your biggest challenge will be getting the old bushings out of the panhard rod. I opted to not bother messing with it and took it to a machinist with a proper press. The new bushes are halved and mush easier to remove/replace should you need to do this again.

 

Getting the bushings out of the radius arms and panhard rod can be a huge pain in the ****. I have a small 12 ton press for setting up diffs that didnt want to push out some old radius arm bushings for ****. Lucky for me my buddy has 40 ton press that makes it a 5 minute job. If your in central Iowa I can help you out..

 

Do you have access to a press?

If not I think I have a used Panhard bar I can send you with the bushings pressed in if you want and you can just send yours back.