The problem with the "28 piece set" type kits is that they don't have a die that would shrink the bush down. You definitely need something that will squash it down by the three or four mm so it fits into the arm. I'm not sure you're going to do that with a bit of threaded rod, either.

I bought a set of stainless steel Allen screws on eBay when I did my rocker cover gaskets.

I hate to say it, but "vague in the centre and sometimes pulls to the side" is pretty normal. It's a fairly low-tech 1940s setup.

Nope, mine's metallic blue (think it's the same shade as Gilbertd's pimpmobile one, paint code 602). It's GEMS and badged as Vogue SE.

I've seen a few that claim to give a firmer ride and better handling, but let's be honest we don't drive these things for the sporty handling and the ride is quite firm enough!

Even if the engine is toast, you can pick up a decent second-hand one for 500 quid or so.

There are two little clips, one on each hinge. It might be worth padding the windscreen with a blanket or something just in case.

Sorry that was a typo. I've a 4.4 litre L322.

You might find http://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/ helpful, they deal with L322 there. On here we mostly have the older P38s, but oh well, since yours is a really early 322 you can stay :-D

Oh you want to watch who you run afoul of here, the mods and owner are right barstewards.

That looks okay. I've just done the track rod and drag link on mine, took about two hours all in (two very teabreaky hours) and I didn't need to take the wheels off :-)

Quite often the bushes look okay until you realise the arms are turned through a slight angle, and you realise you can slide the arm from side to side on the inner sleeve.

Orangebean wrote:

By the side of the road Gordon?

Yeah, just pull it into a layby somewhere and drop the old stuff out. You'll need to bring some sort of container with you I guess, and buy a gallon of oil while you're up there.

For 300 miles it's unlikely to make much of a difference.

Change the oil up there.

Hi! Good to see more folk in, and I think I recognise you from lpgforum :-)

I swapped the front radius arm bushes recently and while it has done nothing for the horrible noises at 60mph it's made the old beast far less keen to leap the crash barriers every time there's a tarmac joint in the motorway - which is helpful, driving through the ten miles of disaster that is the M73/M74 "upgrade" right now.

davew wrote:

Don't want to start a riot (honest) Gordon - and it's nice to see the Nano getting all these accolades.... but how about seeing if BlackBox is prepared to make a member deduction for us? (Think it was ~20% on the 'other' site - before Toad 'took liberties' with Colin I mean)

Don't know that story :-) I'm happy enough for someone else to approach BlackBox and see if they're up for it.

Since nobody's been banned yet for talking Jeeps

No, but maybe for that aerial - hope you're not a bloody CBer Morat, get a proper licence :-D

Hmm, I'll need to try that on the test install. I just put it down to something crashing and restarting before it was quite done updating all the tables.

I would have replied sooner but I've been getting a server error every time I've tried the 'opening time' section since my last post.

That's 'cos Gilbertd broke it :-D

The site's now on a server with a bit more memory (gone from 256MB to 16GB, that ought to do it). So the random crashes when it eats all the RAM should be a thing of the past...

I'm sure it hasn't escaped your attention (although it seems to have slipped right by the mainstream news outlets) that it looks like we're going to end up with the Investigatory Powers Bill signed in to law after all, despite a lot of opposition from all sides. This is likely to have an extremely damaging effect on Internet security, and of course your right to privacy.

What you could do - join the Open Rights Group, write to your MP (unfortunately this really does need to be bits of paper with writing on, emails won't even be read. Can't hurt to send an email too, mind), and tell as many people as you can to find out exactly how dangerous this bill will be.

What this means for this site - There's a very limited amount of information that would be available, if I was asked to provide it. It is likely that if I was required to provide information to some government body, I would not be allowed to reveal that fact. This has not happened. Your passwords are stored as a hash, which is why you can't get your password emailed to you, only a link to reset it (yes, that's broken right now, I know). Passwords are saved using an industry-standard PBKDF2 function. Your password is pretty safe.

You'll notice that there's a little green padlock beside the address bar. This site uses an SSL certificate for encrypting internet traffic, provided by StartSSL. It uses a 4096-bit certificate with 256-bit key - this means that each connection is set up with an immense key, which then creates a shorter key that is only used for a brief period of time before being replaced. Your web traffic is pretty safe.

Now go and poke your MP to stand up against the IP Bill!