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Rear trailing arm bushes.
- Sgr74
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Rear trailing arm bushes.
I recently changed poorly fitted poly bushes for OEM. Should I have fully tighten the bolt which holds the bush, or just take up the slack to allow the bush to move?
Black 2.5 Roadie.
- Steve84N
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Rear trailing arm bushes.
It has to be tightened to over 100nm iirc and it needs to be done at a particular angle so that when the suspension is at rest there's no twisted preload on the bush. There is even a special alignment tool but I simply measured the angle of my cage before I took off the old bush and put the new one on the same.
C63 AMG Estate 6208cc
- Sgr74
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Rear trailing arm bushes.
That'll do for me. ThanksSteve84N wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2017 12:32 pm It has to be tightened to over 100nm iirc and it needs to be done at a particular angle so that when the suspension is at rest there's no twisted preload on the bush. There is even a special alignment tool but I simply measured the angle of my cage before I took off the old bush and put the new one on the same.
Black 2.5 Roadie.