Castor correction.... Help/advise??

You won't get the old bushes out and in the new arms in good condition.
What you need is a polybush kit, these go in with your fingers.
Stand car on level surface, handbrake on.
Work on one side at a time.
Undo the nuts on the 3 large bolts. (This is V difficult, as suzuki put the nuts on the inside. Undoing the bolts is even more so. There isn't enough room to use the Landrover trick of a 12foot scaffold pole over the end of the breaker bar) tap the bolts out, and the arm will drop down.
Replace the arm. You may need to chock the front wheel each side, and release the handbrake, then rock the car to get the last bolt to line up. Some folks use one of those ratchet straps to pull the axle.

facade wrote: You won't get the old bushes out and in the new arms in good condition.
What you need is a polybush kit, these go in with your fingers.
Stand car on level surface, handbrake on.
Work on one side at a time.
Undo the nuts on the 3 large bolts. (This is V difficult, as suzuki put the nuts on the inside. Undoing the bolts is even more so) tap the bolts out, and the arm will drop down.
Replace the arm. You may need to chock the front wheel each side, and release the handbrake, then rock the car to get the last bolt to line up. Some folks use one of those ratchet straps to pull the axle.

thank you, very helpful. thats a shame, i will try and see if i can get them out in resonable condition, of not look like another 80 odd quid on a polybush kit!

Just save up the money and buy them later, using old bushes is false economy and if you can't get them out in one piece then your jimny won't be going anywhere.

dirtydogz wrote: Just save up the money and buy them later, using old bushes is false economy and if you can't get them out in one piece then your jimny won't be going anywhere.

ookay, will do that. dammit, im annoyed with myself now! should of asked this before i ordered! thank you everyone for you help

sure, i used old bushes to put them in jimnybits radius arms:

I've got those arms, got them with the bushes in though. They work great with my 3" lift, anti roll bar not needed.

The easiest and cheapest way to correct Your castor, bro, is to order the ex-centric polyurethane bushes or silent-blocks (as we call them in Russian) for both front arms. All tohether You need 4 pcs, 500 RUR each (about 20 $)/
Just go to www.polyurethane.ru and find Jimny's ones. Contact them, they understand English. Shipment to UK will cost You some 10-20 poinds, no more.

All Russian Jimny lifters use this optimal way. I'm driving mine for the last 50 t.km - still alive. The car rides 35" TSL Boggers, used for trophy only.

Bushes are only ok up to 2" lift ,more than that and the full arm is needed

Please don't tell this good joke to any Russian - there are THOUSANDS of crazy Russians which use excentrics for lifts up to 4"...

E.g. mine is 85 mm and the car is still self-steering. And in any case it's easier and simplier to blow off the axle bracket by plasma or just cut it by wheel and to weld it back with 2-3 deg. angle.

really dont know what i was worrying about... it was a piece of piddle. in the end i got the arms and got some bushes from my local. superb, works a treat it now drives somewhere near where i point it at! the rear end is a bit frisky but i can deal with that now. looking like i will have to trim the bumper up to stop my tyres catching on it.... or does anyone know if you can fit some sort of spacer to clear the bumper from the wheels??

cheers

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Just go to www.polyurethane.ru and find Jimny's ones. Contact them, they understand English. Shipment to UK will cost You some 10-20 poinds, no more."""


it is written in Russian! i don't understant nothing

renard38 wrote: ""
Just go to www.polyurethane.ru and find Jimny's ones. Contact them, they understand English. Shipment to UK will cost You some 10-20 poinds, no more."""


it is written in Russian! i don't understant nothing

Found by luck more than Russian language skills. Search jimny in the top left of the page, i did have a link but couldn't post it as BJ thought it was spam.


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