Fitting anti roll bar bushes

[Lightweightsteve]

Hi all,

 

Could someone give me the heads up on fitting poly anti roll bar bushes to my mk1 - they seem to have a hard plastic insert which obviously wont push around the radius of the bar from one of the ends.

 

I could cut a slit in them, but the inner plastic looks brittle and I don't think would stretch over the bar.

 

Is there a trick that I'm missing.

 

Cheers, as always,

Steve

[classicwhitey]

what make are they? ive only come across ones that have a slit in them that you simply pull the bush open and clip it on to the bar.

[Lightweightsteve]

Poly race from Motorsport tools. Have dunked them in boiling water, which seemed to make them a little more plyable, so might have sorted it!

[classicwhitey]

if your trying that then plenty of washing up liquid & water on the bar too

[Lightweightsteve]

Great, thank you.

 

Steve

[Chris standage]

Don't mean to be cheeky or anything, but I'm trying to figure out what size anti roll bar bushes i need for my mk1, would anyone know what size for a 1.3 mk1 escort anti roll bar, rally designs catalogue says the small 19mm are for 1600 gt vehicles , so you've got the choice of 20, 22 or 24mm, from rough measurements it looks like 20mm but i don't want to buy the wrong bushes.

[Lightweightsteve]

hi Chris, mine started life as a 1.3, and I don't think the roll bar has been changed.

I measured the bar with a vernier at 20mm

[BigBubba]

Poly race from Motorsport tools. Have dunked them in boiling water, which seemed to make them a little more plyable, so might have sorted it!

 

Sometimes when they are moulded the slit doesn't form - possibly cheaper to mould this way?. Does it have a groove along the bottom, inside? If so, just run a blade up it.