Poly Bushes

[Black Cat]

I’m in the process of stripping down my 1977 Triumph Spitfire 1500 and it looks like I will need to replace all the bushes on the car.

I ‘am thinking I will replace them with polyurethane bushes but was surprised at the cost which would be about £360.00 for a complete set from the club shop.

Moss have a complete set of Superpro polyurethane bushes for £253.04 and Rimmer Bros have a complete kit for £219.00

I would like to buy from the club shop but with a potential saving of £140.00 if I buy from Rimmer Bros it looks likely that it may well be Rimmer Bros.

What are your thoughts from the three providers I have listed, and are there any other options?

There are also varying degrees of hardness, fast road, competitions etc. I won’t be doing any competition but what exactly is fast road?

I’m looking for a comfortable ride but would like to tune up the engine when I strip it down so should I fit bushes that are suitable for fast road use or just the standard poly bushes?

Thanks

[Clive]

What brand are Rimmers offerings? Superflex are probably the best.

Some people don't like the firmer bushes. but in some places you want good control, so harder works well. Thinking front wishbone bushes and steering rack mounts in particular. And I would not use poly tunnion bushes, they need to be nylon/hard plastic as OEM.

My car is fairly hardcore, but I still use the std Koni shock bushes, and have no complaints about those. In fact if I could find original quality rubber bushes, I would. I had to use poly as modern rubber bushes are very poor.

 

BTW superflex only offer 1 hardness. 

[yorkshire_spam]

Not sure about now, but at one time Rimmers bushes were PolyBush brand. (Which are not bad at all) On Land Rover's I've had the standard red polybush were pretty good for ride (if "good ride" and "Land Rover" aren't a contradiction in terms)

My preference is Superflex or SuperPro, I won't touch anything unbranded or "FloFlex" or any of the eBay specials.

 

[68vitesse]

When I did my Vitesse got Superflex bushes from Chris Witor who was very helpful. Just used standard bushes which are supplied in different hardness depending where they are used on the car.

Regards

Paul

[mark powell]

I bought my Poly bush kit from Jigsaw £154.80 + carriage in 2016.    This set..http://www.polybush.co.uk/shop/triumph/herald?attr=2|1969

[daverclasper]

I used Canley, for Vitesse. They were Polybush and had a good reputation from previous users. They were also the cheapest at the time. This was a couple of years ago

Dave.

[Nick Jones]

We've bought sets from Paddocks in the past which are mixtures of Superflex and Superpro. Actually I'd be happier to use new ordinary rubber ones if they were OE quality and not made of some fake "rubber" that appears to be based on dog poop which dries up and blows away in the wind after a year or two.

Nick

[daverclasper]

My original rubbers looked dodgy as they looked perished at the ends, so I replaced. Apparently (I found out later), if they are old originals, they can be ok for years looking like this.

Maybe a waste of time and money, that I replaced them.

Dave

[Black Cat]

According to Rimmer Bros., there bushes are Flo-Flex and Yorkshire-Spam has said he wont touch them.

Anybody else have any issues with Flo-Flex?