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These bushes seem to be flogged out, sagged on my L Series 4WD sedan, with the telltale rust colour dust on its surrounds.

Who has replaced them on car?

I figure newies in urethane will be the best way to go, may be two halves to fit in easy or a press fit requiring disassembly.

How hard is it to get the genuine bushes out? on car or in press. maybe burn them out on car with oxy?

Any advice is welcome

Oxy is good but not burning.. just heating the outside then punch them out with a socket. Been a long time since I did mine but I don't remember any major hassles.

New ones are like you say in 2 halves for ease of fitment.. make sure you you the grease that they come with.

went to query supply

two kits avail from nolan or nolathane

one 46215 is just four half bushes - all I can see I need if all goes well YET catalogue in print and on line says two kits required to do car. states 4 bush in kit at about $90

picture on site shows eight bushes and four crush tubes

the other kit 46200, says one is needed, at $132 contains full length bushes with outer shells and crush tubes by the picture (forgot to read chart)

I think it is a misprint for two kits required. have emailed them for answer on confusion, then found the tech enquiry line

thought bushes would be cheaper than that too!!

Hoping to be able to push the ragged old rubbers out retaining outer shell and reuse the crush tubes if they do not come in kit

trailing arm bushes, there is inners (which is what I aim to replace) and outers that I forgot about. I got a quick response from nolathane asking for more detail so have just emailed a diagram. the two kit option might be xplained as one kit per side to do both inner and outer, not as labour intensive but dearer than the other single kit. Will update when it is worked out.

Are we talking rear trailing arms? I've done mine, I think I used two kits, one each side for both inner and outter bushes. The easy bit was installing the new bush, the hard bit was hammering out the old one!

Rear end is nice and tight again Still need to do the front control arm and radius rod bushes, once that's done all suspension will be relatively fresh

Cheers

Bennie

yeah, considering outer bushes starts to explain why 2 kits are required - of one part number. The other number option is one kit suposedly to do same job but with pressing after rear trailing arm removal from car and 60 bucks cheaper. did someone say tightarse?

reply is that only one 46215 kit contains bushes and crush tubes (hope the web pic is correct, coz I think that is where he got his info from, not the actual packet in his hands) is required to do all points of both arms. Technically redranger/nolathane use terms as trailing arm and control arm depending on east west or north south positioning. puts our north east, south west arms in the too hard to define basket. The orientation of the outer bush makes it a control arm.


This kit is about 91 bucks. The dearer kit 46200 was developed first with the rear end out of the car and based on original bushes. Calls came in saying originals mostly had lost any bond and could be shoved out on car and can we please have some bushes to fit up - and they listened to customers and came up with 46215. That is what I like in a local company!