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Old 13th September 2020, 13:00   #13
Mike Noc
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Originally Posted by drewbie View Post
Surely as long as all parts are clean and a thin coating of anti seize grease applied there should be no need to remove metal to make them fit correctly.
You'd like to think so but pattern parts can be a bit hit and miss. Could be a combination of the arms being just that bit over the tolerance and the bushes just that bit under.

Either way I wouldn't use the garage that fitted them again as they should have spotted the problem and corrected it either with a file or different parts, not just kept going until the bushes were pushed out of their housings.

I had the same problem when fitting Powerflex bushes. Had to take a fair bit off the pattern arms to make them fit correctly.
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