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Bushed to bearing
speedyxjs - 16/1/10 at 08:11 PM

Is there any way to change a bushed shock absorber to bearings?

MikeR - 16/1/10 at 08:16 PM

sell the bush and buy a bearing.

cut off the bush and weld on a bearing.

about the only two ways i can see of doing it on my avo's unless you want to completely strip them and get a new bottom and top from avo with bearings in them.

why do you want to?

speedyxjs - 16/1/10 at 08:19 PM

'cos the only way to mount my front shocks is at a slight angle (top mounting being a couple of inches further back than the bottom) and most of the shock avaliable on fleabay are bushes.

I will buy new if i cant find any but its taking ages to save up

Theshed - 16/1/10 at 10:05 PM

Can you not move one of the mountings? Having them out of line will do bendy things big time....followed by snappy things.... followed by crashy things

CNHSS1 - 16/1/10 at 10:37 PM

most AVO shock eyelets are machined as std with grooves for spherical bearings. Call AVO order bearings and some circlips, job done

speedyxjs - 17/1/10 at 09:35 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Theshed
Can you not move one of the mountings? Having them out of line will do bendy things big time....followed by snappy things.... followed by crashy things


Nope. The bottom mount cant be moved back as it would interfere with the tie rod and the top one cant move forward as it would interfere with the top wishbone.

I hase seen race cars with a similar setup so i dont thing it will be too bad (i hope )

Brommers - 18/1/10 at 01:42 PM

quote:
Originally posted by speedyxjs
Is there any way to change a bushed shock absorber to bearings?


I did this with my Nitron dampers - I found a spherical bearing which was, once the bush had been removed, a tight interference fit in the housing and pressed them into place with lots of studlock. Picture here.

Never got round to using them, however, as one of the dampers fell apart when I was installing it. Nothing to do with the bearing installation though - there was just (as you can see from the photos) insufficient penetration in the weld and was an accident waiting to happen.

Still, that's what you get for paying nearly a grand for a set of dampers...