front lower wishbone bushes (lollipops)

I used the meyle bushes & havent noticed any detioration of ride quality despite the fact they are not oil filled like the oe ones-i did lose an annoying steering shake the worn original bushes were causing under braking though.
They seemed like a good compromise between original & polybush lollipops to me.
regards
 
I'm a big fan of meyle HD stuff. Used it on my old E46 and will be doing the same on the Zed when the time comes.
 
Hola Amigos, may I hijack this thread with a related question? I've been looking at bushes mainly powerflex but will be going Meyle when buying. However, the site selling the powerflex stuff gives three sizes for some of bushes and asks that you specify when ordering. How are you supposed to know what's on your car or is the standard car - standard, as it were? Confused me no end. I'd like to buy a whole car set and replace as needed but this has thrown me.


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Lee Young said:
Hola Amigos, may I hijack this thread with a related question? I've been looking at bushes mainly powerflex but will be going Meyle when buying. However, the site selling the powerflex stuff gives three sizes for some of bushes and asks that you specify when ordering. How are you supposed to know what's on your car or is the standard car - standard, as it were? Confused me no end. I'd like to buy a whole car set and replace as needed but this has thrown me.

66mm for lollipops on the zed :)

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Oh yes, carrying on from above... I have bought a set of Meyle lollipops as it was an advisory on the last mot. On looking at various lollipops however there appears to be a bush within the black bush. Hope you know what I mean. Do I therefore have to buy a separate bush to go inside the Meyle fitting? Confused or what!


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Don't have a clue what you mean lol

The Melye lollipops are ready to fit :)

if you want Polybushes all of the rubber comes out of the middle and then its pressed into the external housing that remains :)
 
I had Meyle HD's fitted yesterday and some of the waywardness i thought was due to runflats has now gone.
 
I have a couple of the hockey stick swinging Jimmy's in my scrap pile. Left over from a pair of MeyleHDs. If you want to muck about with pressing joints and the like. I cut the nuts off with a grinder because I only use spanners if I have to. So it's just the big chunky ally things. Yours if you want them. I threw the lollipops in the bin. Sorry.
 
I have a pair of lollipops (with the remnants of the old bushes inside them still) if you want them for a small fee?

I was going to cut the old bush out and sell them all cleaned up and looking nice, but if you want them as they are then we can work something out. :thumbsup:
 
Bought a pair of OPEC direct replacements from ECP in their sale mid-last week for just over £25 for both inc vat.
Got round to fitting one this evening and will replace the other side tomorrow.

one thing to note when doing the replacement is: have some dish soap handy!
I tried silicone grease. I tried a rubber mallet. I tried sacrificing a small child.. nothing helped with getting the new ones on.

Tried a dab of dish soap on a re-cleaned arm and bush, and with one tap of the rubber mallet, it slid perfectly into place first time.

so yeah.. dish soap now lives in my toolbox. :thumbsup:
 
so day 2.. and the other side just will NOT go on.
i can get it on a few centimeters, but it just pops right back off again.
no amount of human pushing helps, and it is pointless hammering it, as it just bounces right back immediately.

help!?!
 
sk93 said:
so day 2.. and the other side just will NOT go on.
i can get it on a few centimeters, but it just pops right back off again.
no amount of human pushing helps, and it is pointless hammering it, as it just bounces right back immediately.

help!?!
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Cheap part maybe?

Take it back to ECP and maybe try a replacement
 
this is nothing to do with the cost of the part.....
its simply a fitment issue, and the more googling I'm doing, the more common it appears to be.
even more so with 'tougher' units such as poly bushes :headbang:
 
an example of someone experiencing the same problem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB0mJyu6iR4
 
Poly bushings (the powerflex ones) pop on by hand. It's a thin&soft insert; that's the easiest part of the install.

This is clearly a poor tolerance issue, if the one side goes on easily and this side gives a lot of trouble. I mean the control arms hex endings are the same.

The only thing I can think of is putting some kind of clamp on it that presses it further. Hammering on rubber is tricky, as the force of the blow gets dissipated in the rubber and thus is less effective than on hard materials. Constant force is better maybe.

But I don't know if you can get a clamp to grip on something (or maybe a rope that you twist togheter).

^ oh wait, maybe a ratcheting strap. That's a nice idea.
 
and done!

ratchet strap did the job perfectly - went on even easier than the first side if i'm honest!

simply hook both ends of the strap to the gaps in the control arm, take up the slack, then align the lolipop by hand.
push the lolipop on with one hand, then use your other hand to operate the ratchet, using it to take up the slack and stopping it from popping back off.
once you've pushed it as far as you can by hand, tighten the ratchet slowly until there's some tension, then give the lolipop a tap with the rubber mallet, and bingo!

took it for a quick spirited drive around my local b roads and the improvement in handling is excellent - possibly better than when I bought the car!

cheap parts or not, these have a 2 year warranty, cost feck all, handle perfectly, even when pushing it at speed, and I have no doubt they will last!

time for a beer!
 
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