radius arm bush orientation

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#1 radius arm bush orientation

Post by doffo25 » Fri Aug 11, 2017 2:51 pm

Ive just been congratulating myself on having successfully pressed a new large rubber bush into the radius arm using only a vice.....worked very well......only to discover that the two rubber holes arent aligned longitudinally as they should be but at a random 45deg ish....grrrr
Am I likely to encounter any problems if I leave it like this?

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#2 Re: radius arm bush orientation

Post by Heuer » Fri Aug 11, 2017 3:29 pm

For competition work they usually re-orientate the bushes by 90° to stiffen the suspension but they usually do that to both. If one is 45° out make sure the other side is the same. No harm will come of having them both at that angle.
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#3 Re: radius arm bush orientation

Post by christopher storey » Fri Aug 11, 2017 5:26 pm

:yeahthat: +1 to Heuer's point . IIRC David Marks of the JEC suggests that 45 degrees is a good compromise

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#4 Re: radius arm bush orientation

Post by doffo25 » Fri Aug 11, 2017 6:01 pm

Oh thats great.....so instead of going out to the workshop and having to hack out my new bush Im simply going to open a bottle of red :bigrin:

Thank you very much for your replies.

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