Sharpen up your steering - poly track rod bushes £24 inc p&p

Sharpen up your steering - poly track rod bushes £24 inc p&p

by Chavtastic » Sat Dec 03, 2011 8:52 pm

Just thought some of you would appreciate this link.

Not seen many people running these but should be a good modification to reduce play in the steering!

£24.04 delivered

http://www.priracing.com/product.php/17 ... rod-bushes
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Re: Sharpen up your steering - poly track rod bushes £24 inc

by Calibra_Mike » Sun Dec 04, 2011 1:11 pm

might treat myself in the new year...
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Re: Sharpen up your steering - poly track rod bushes £24 inc

by MadOnVaux! » Mon Jul 30, 2012 3:44 pm

Abit of a bump ;)

Ive been looking at these....anyone now got them, how easy are they to fit and is there a good improvement with them?
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Re: Sharpen up your steering - poly track rod bushes £24 inc

by Chavtastic » Mon Jul 30, 2012 3:48 pm

They are easy to fit, just press them in and out. Took me about 3 minutes each side.

And yes it was a brilliant different. It eliminated about 80% of the play in the steering.
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by MadOnVaux! » Mon Jul 30, 2012 5:35 pm

Chavtastic wrote:They are easy to fit, just press them in and out. Took me about 3 minutes each side.

And yes it was a brilliant different. It eliminated about 80% of the play in the steering.


Did you fit them with the arms on the car or taken off?....they sound good though :)
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by Chavtastic » Mon Jul 30, 2012 9:04 pm

Yeah I did, but I had the arms off anyway to be fair.

Not sure you'd manage it in-situ as you need a press ideally. Having said that, a G-clamp with a socket might do it (something like a 19mm looks about right size)
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by MadOnVaux! » Thu Aug 16, 2012 3:50 pm

Just bought a set :)

They must have reduced them slightly as it cost me £23.38 delivered :)
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by STEVA » Thu Aug 16, 2012 5:49 pm

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Re: Sharpen up your steering - poly track rod bushes £24 inc

by MadOnVaux! » Thu Aug 16, 2012 8:42 pm

Just wondering on fitment...haynes says to use a new locking plate on the inner tie rod bolts and new nyloc nuts on the track rod ends.....is is 100% necessary?
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by craigyboy » Thu Aug 16, 2012 9:38 pm

MadOnVaux! wrote:Just wondering on fitment...haynes says to use a new locking plate on the inner tie rod bolts and new nyloc nuts on the track rod ends.....is is 100% necessary?


Mate you are always meant to replace nyloc nuts once you
take them off.
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Re: Sharpen up your steering - poly track rod bushes £24 inc

by MadOnVaux! » Fri Aug 17, 2012 4:33 pm

craigyboy wrote:
MadOnVaux! wrote:Just wondering on fitment...haynes says to use a new locking plate on the inner tie rod bolts and new nyloc nuts on the track rod ends.....is is 100% necessary?


Mate you are always meant to replace nyloc nuts once you
take them off.


Ok, but what about the locking plate?
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by Fraz » Fri Aug 17, 2012 4:55 pm

usually the locking late will snap at one or more points, so if your that worried you should change it
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Re: Sharpen up your steering - poly track rod bushes £24 inc

by EddeyDancer » Sun Aug 19, 2012 5:58 pm

MadOnVaux! wrote: I've been looking at these... Anyone now got them, how easy are they to fit and is there a good improvement with them?


I've had them for a Year now...

Scroll down to the bottom of the page for some pics...

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=45499&start=60
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Re: Sharpen up your steering - poly track rod bushes £24 inc

by MadOnVaux! » Sun Aug 19, 2012 9:01 pm

EddeyDancer wrote:
MadOnVaux! wrote: I've been looking at these... Anyone now got them, how easy are they to fit and is there a good improvement with them?


I've had them for a Year now...

Scroll down to the bottom of the page for some pics...

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=45499&start=60


The ones you have are for the anti-roll bar links Eddey...the ones we are on about are for the steering, they fit the inner tie tod, connected to the rack :)
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by bodgetastic » Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:37 pm

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