Diy Car Bushes

[camerondownunder88]

Hi,

A lot of us KE1X owners find it hard to find bushes for our cars and if we want the modern Nolathane bushes we can't they don't make a whole kit for a KE1X

 

So I was wondering plastic is easy to mold usually.

 

So can I DIY bushes and also what type of plastic are those red Nolathane bushes made from?

 

Cheers

Cameron

[coln72]

try me

This may help (or it may not?)

[philbey]

They're a urethane, but urethanes come in many many different flavours so you'd have to do some thinking.....

[camerondownunder88]

Hi,

Link kinda helps. It more shows you cutting down larger ones to fit. I want to MOULD my own.

 

If the bushes are jsut urethane it si a 2 part mix I can pour cold and mould my own new KE1X bushes. As I got soem original Toyota bushes from Japan the other day and I want to use them to make a mould then I can re make them from an original.

 

Also are you sure there urethane? and not Polyurethan as I though poly was the hard one... Might have to make soem phone calls.

 

So more or less has any one heard of peopel moulding there own bushes? Good ro bad results. As the main bush I need for my KE15 is LCA so kinda critical to get it right..LOL

 

Cheers

Cameron

[Boost+k]

there normally polyurethan, seen some guys over here buy lengths of the stuff and machine down in lath to suit, comes in different grades i think

[Taz_Rx]

there normally polyurethan, seen some guys over here buy lengths of the stuff and machine down in lath to suit, comes in different grades i think

 

Yeha that would probably be the same stuff I've seen my mates buy in a metre length to cut and drill through to make body lifts in 4x4's.

So there's a possible avenue on where to buy it - 4x4 shops. :y:

[camerondownunder88]

Cool ill have a look a lot of you guys seem to think machine down prob easier than moulding saves making the mould..LOL

 

But I know moulding poly-U (easier to type) is a 2 part mix 50/50 ratio set over night DONE. If I was to make a fair amount of these id go mould but for now I might machine.

 

Do we know if pedders etc or noltech people sell raw stock of there bush material?

 

Cheers

Cameron

[styler]

superpro would be the place to go, sells the bush material in 300mm or so lengths

at 50mm diameter or something like that, the sections come in different grades of

stiffness and retail at about $80 to $120 a length or so :y: easy to get from fulcrum

suspension outlets all over qld last time i looked.

 

although i also was going to make bushes out of raw tube it takes careful machining

to get a good finish, check the article on it on the superpro website. what i did was

get the specs of my old bush and cross reference to another bush which needed some

minor machining to suit :wink:

[parrot]

Years ago I went to a specialist plastics place in West Melbourne and they turned up some KE17 lower arm bushes on a lathe. That was for a car that ran slicks so whatever type of urethane it was, was intended to have virtually no give.

Edited June 18, 2009 by parrot

[camerondownunder88]

WOW $80 for 300mm long rod not cheap..LOL

 

I have all the skills to machine stuff. I have machined Teflon before does it act similar?

 

But My plan is to use all new bushes in my KE15 and stiff I want to tune the stock suspension as no one has really done it here before and I think it has potential for more directness with out going over board.

 

So by the looks of it molding my own is useless. Looks like I might have a lot of cross referencing to do to find one of the right size that fits if not Ill draw a few up adn machine some rod.

 

Cheers

Cameron

[philbey]

Urethanes, engineering slang for Polyurethane. There's a huge range of urethanes, from hard plastics, elastomers to soft foams.

 

I would err away from the moulding as well, especially if you've got the machining equipment. You'll probably not save any money or time, because you'll need tooling of some sort.

 

I might have a look this weekend and try find some spec's for urethanes you'd be looking for.

 

TP