Deflex wishbone bushes

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Deflex wishbone bushes

Postby Cage on Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:51 am

hi guys

Has anyone ever fitted these on their car as i got a set of wishbones which already had them fitted from a ft member and it feels as if they are moving inside the wishbone but when i took them off for a closer look they look tight as.

Can anyone shed some light on this,also these wishbones have been cowboyed so you can adjust the camber by having the rivets drilled out and being replaced with bolts.i have to have them adjusted every week as they keep moving.

does anyone know where i can get some proper camber adjustable wishbones from and a rough price would be great

cheers guys
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Postby fiestasiphil on Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:44 pm

ite mate zoo motorsport there expensive tho
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Postby Burnage on Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:52 pm

1.8 diesel - too primitive to break!
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Postby fiestasiphil on Tue Oct 24, 2006 2:24 pm

the zoo arms r a much better a safer chioce than deflex :) yet a lot more expensive but i'm sure there worth the extra cash as i'm gettin them soon
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Postby Cage on Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:44 pm

Cheers for the info guys

I think ill go for the zoo ones,sound like the better ones.
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Postby heeman10 on Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:23 pm

fiestasiphil :the zoo arms r a much better a safer chioce than deflex :) yet a lot more expensive but i'm sure there worth the extra cash as i'm gettin them soon

You mean these?

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Postby scotty86d on Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:45 pm

heeman10, what happened?
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Postby fiestasiphil on Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:57 pm

i remember that post can u send me a link to that please, as i couldn't work out the name of the wishbones surely they have been improved since then
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Postby fiestasiphil on Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:58 pm

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Postby heeman10 on Wed Oct 25, 2006 3:42 pm

The design you have posted above is different to the ones that failed. It still looks as though a long section is left unsupported with a load applied half way along the tube.

The damaged wishbone isn't mine, I use Area Six wishbones, the arm photographed above belonged to Sunil:

http://www.fiestaturbo.com/forums/had-a ... ight=sunil
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Postby BUTRE on Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:17 pm

Hum... something od about that lowerarm braking right there.

1- It seems more like that it was cut than braked.

2- It braked right next to the weld seam (too much ampere when welding will eat up the material... can't belive that someone like zoo motorsport would fail on this rookie bad weld problem)

3- the thread should have failed first before braking like that.


Was this problem resolved? Does the castor adjustable lower arms also experience this problem?
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Postby heeman10 on Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:50 pm

If you read the thread I've linked to above you'll see all the same comments made :) Can't remember the outcome of the situation, but the thread might tell you!
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Postby BUTRE on Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:49 pm

heeman10 :If you read the thread I've linked to above you'll see all the same comments made :) Can't remember the outcome of the situation, but the thread might tell you!


Going to read it. Thanks :wink:
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