JETURBO ...JD TUNING ADELAIDE... Gold Donating Members 23,708 Member For: 16y 7m 14d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 07/06/13 11:40 AM Share Posted 07/06/13 11:40 AM (edited) Sooo had a crunching knock on elevated right hand turns and found the issue to be the two upper control arm bushes in the alloy arm PITA to do without a 20T press, nearly destroyed poor dazzas little press trying though haha So getting them out was not to bad but got sa suspension to press the new ones in, bought 4 pieces off ebay for $50 and they have given me back that nice firm steering wheel feel again and no noises Nolathane do a kit for $120 but I did not want the harder bush so that's why I went the stock replacements Old bushNew bush Edited 07/06/13 11:47 AM by J@SNOT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Wiggum Moar Powar Babeh Lifetime Members 19,323 Member For: 19y 3m 22d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 07/06/13 12:09 PM Share Posted 07/06/13 12:09 PM They where well cactus, brembos strike again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JETURBO ...JD TUNING ADELAIDE... Gold Donating Members 23,708 Member For: 16y 7m 14d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 07/06/13 12:16 PM Author Share Posted 07/06/13 12:16 PM Yeh but only drivers side .... Got me buggered Going to just do the other side later as I need more bushes due to destroying two trying :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
droF Donating Members 32 Member For: 14y 3m 17d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 07/06/13 01:32 PM Share Posted 07/06/13 01:32 PM How long have you had the Brembo's on for inorder for it to ruin the bush. I.e.. Wont that happen again by replacing them with rubber ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JETURBO ...JD TUNING ADELAIDE... Gold Donating Members 23,708 Member For: 16y 7m 14d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 07/06/13 02:25 PM Author Share Posted 07/06/13 02:25 PM 170,000kms ...... I should be right I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smackers XR6T Red F6310 Member 175 Member For: 19y 5m 4d Gender: Male Location: A small country town on the Murray River South Australia Posted 07/06/13 07:32 PM Share Posted 07/06/13 07:32 PM I fitted the nolathane top arm bushes to my F6 and noticed no increase in any NVH at all, in all honesty it sctually seems quieter as well as being more responsive to steering inputs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JETURBO ...JD TUNING ADELAIDE... Gold Donating Members 23,708 Member For: 16y 7m 14d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 08/06/13 01:14 AM Author Share Posted 08/06/13 01:14 AM Nice , I was just going off previous experiance with nolathane Steering feels top chit now ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
droF Donating Members 32 Member For: 14y 3m 17d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 11/06/13 11:31 AM Share Posted 11/06/13 11:31 AM What are other noticeable signs of worn upper control arm bushes? Squeaking, brake shudder ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JETURBO ...JD TUNING ADELAIDE... Gold Donating Members 23,708 Member For: 16y 7m 14d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 11/06/13 11:34 AM Author Share Posted 11/06/13 11:34 AM Yep and yep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seaton Donating Members 537 Member For: 12y 4m 18d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 16/06/13 07:36 AM Share Posted 16/06/13 07:36 AM Hey Jet, by the looks if things, you can get the control arms out without taking the brackets off the body? I don't want to take the brackets off if I don't have too as its all shimmed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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