Figure 8 Bushes?, where to buy? Options

[sosolidsaq]

Hi Guys!

After a stressful week trying to find an annoying creaking noise from the front left handside suspension, i came to realise that its my figuire 8 bush. I greased it and put it back in and it seems fine, i have a feeling the noise may come back, so my question is where is the best and cheapest place to get these bushes?

oh btw mines SS3 Gen6 with SuperStrutSuspension

any help would be great

saq

PS. Just realised that this should be in Suspension/Brakes and Handling section. Mods feel free to move this topic

This post has been edited by sosolidsaq: Feb 22, 2007 - 7:39 PM

[jason]

hahaha at first i thought this was about like the plant... hedges or what have you

[sosolidsaq]

LOL @ Jason!

i can see how you would have thought that

anyone else have any info?

saq

[Insanity-74]

www.cheaptoyotaparts.co.uk
www.whifbitz.co.uk
www.fensport.com
www.tcbperformanceparts.com
www.funkystyling.co.uk

any of these places should get you some Fig8`s, then again there is always Toyota.

[vsideboy]

I've got mine from TCB mate. make sure for definite thats what it is though cos they don't refund correctly supplied parts.

Think it was about £90 last time I got one.

[sosolidsaq]

thanks for the response guys!

this forum rox! since all the noises i got the bushes greased up as they look in good condition and since then all is fine. The sounds have totally gone. I hope they stay like that if not i'll get some figure 8's from one of the links you guys posted.

THANKS AGAIN!

saq

[Alan]

hey guys where are the figure of 8 bushes, I have noises commming from the suspension, it is coming from the arms mine is a SSS are these 8 bushes a common problem on SSS do you ave pics I also noticed the bolt the holds the lower arm to the subfrome keep lossing are they the bushes the ones under the arm to subframe?

[vsideboy]

Alan,

The fig 8 piece connects 1 of the lower arms to the strutt. They look like an 8 shape hence the name. Can't find a pic but if you have a superstrutt suspension then you'll deffo be able to see it. You have 2 lower arms, 1 is perfectly straight with a bush and the fig 8 in the middle and the other is a banana shape.

When mine have been on their way out they've made the steering veer to the side slightly on acceleration/deceleration. Mainly because its allowing 1 wheel to twist slightly.

Hope that helps.

[Alan]

My car is not sterring or anything but making squeking noises do you think that this is the problem and I read somewhere that they have grease nipples is this ture? cant see any

[vsideboy]

hmm, not sure about the nipples mate, can't say i've ever seen anything like that.

Before disasembling anything I would try getting some wd40 or similar into the joints and see if that temporarily gets rid of the squeeks. If you spray 1 joint at a time and leave it to soak in for a while then you might be able to narrow down where the noise is coming from (what I mean is spray 1 joint, leave to soak if still noise then spray another etc until noise is gone, then you could maybe disassemble that joint and regrease if necessary?)