Dumb questions...

[NES304]

What are these called? And where's best place to buy from?


 In the HR front mount rubber kit I have these round bits.... Where the hell do they go?? I never took anything like them off in the first place.

[ardiesse]

Answer to Question 1:  Upper control arm bushes.  Dufor used to make them, but I think Dufor has gone the way of most Australian manufacturing companies.  Rare Spares seems to have a good stock of control arm shafts and bushes.

Answer to Question 2:  These are the upper rubber insulators for the crossmember mounts in an HR.  In the kit there are six of them.  I was expecting four.  In an HR, two of them are used as the crossmember outrigger mounts - one between the subframe and the outrigger, the other between the outrigger mounting bolt and the subframe.  The other four go in the "wells" in the top of the subframe where the crossmember mounting bolts go through.  From top to bottom, the crossmember mounts are assembled as follows: Crossmember bolt - large flat washer - upper insulator (the bit in the photo) - subframe - lower crossmember rubber ("top-hat") - crossmember - spring washer - nut.

But your modified front crossmember has an EJ outrigger, by the looks of it.  You need to go to Rares and buy the FE-EH front crossmember outrigger rubbers.  And if this modified HR front crossmember is being fitted to anything FE-EK, use HR crossmember bolts, washers and spacer tubes with the Rare Spares replacement rubbers.

Rob

[NES304]

Champion Rob thanks. Already have the outrigger rubber 😉