The Triumph Dolomite Club - Discussion Forum

FWIW, car is back together. I bent the inner brackets open just a hair and the bushes went right in. Weird that I needed to do that but was barely 1/8 of an inch off. Nevertheless, ride and handling are once again restored. Also fitted new ARB end links as had a broken one. One more job done!

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The SuperPro ones are also varied in duro/shore rating. I checked with them direct before I made the order with Robsport.

The SuperPro bushes are quite the opposite. I’ve tried many different polybushes over the years and theirs are among the softest/most forgiving I’ve seen yet, which is another reason why I chose them as I am aware that the hard poly stresses the Dolly suspension mounting points.

Well, I used SuperPro because I’ve got them in my TR6 and love the ride as they’re among the most compliant polybushes I’ve ever used so wanted to go that route in the Sprint as well but strange that the ARB bushes won’t fit.

Much as I can appreciate Chris Witor as I also have a 2500S Estate, he’s ...

I presume you had no issues with the width of the bushes and the brackets? Maybe the set I got were packaged wrong..

Hi gents,

Anyone else used the front anti roll bar bushes from them? I’ve completed my front and rear suspension overhaul and so finally got round to fitting the front ARB bushes and I noticed that the SuperPro ones are slightly wider than what came out and won’t fit inside the inner brackets. The ...

Right, well, it’s done now but I’ve learned my lesson for the future. As mentioned, the SuperPro polybush provided for the lower inner is quite hard in comparison to the others so I’ll be interested to see how the drive goes. Rimmers show plenty of new lower arms in stock if the poly arrangement isn ...

Well, got done changing the lower inner arm bush for the front, what a pig that was. In hindsight, I’d definitely have stuck with the original arrangement of the rose joint type bush and in fact, almost binned the idea of fiddling any longer with it and was about to order a pair of new lower arms ...

Thanks for the clarification gents, and Ian, thank you for noting the early versus late car arrangement. My car, being an '80, makes sense then. Maybe I'll have another go at trying to get everything to line up with three washers in place since that's how it's supposed to be. I guess I can also ...

Hi gents,

Working on freshening the front and rear suspensions of my ‘80 Sprint whilst I await the arrival of my brake adjuster from Alun and had a question about the thick washers on the upper pivot bolt on the front upper wishbone bracket...

Per the Rimmers diagram, four washers are called for ...

The other point to bear in mind regarding the ratchet is the teeth, I have found some to be worn and they need to have a sharp edge for the adjuster to work correctly.

Malcolm


Thanks Malcom, cheers. I’ve inspected the teeth and they seem to be in fairly good nick so I’m hopeful that simply ...

xvivalve wrote: ↑Thu Apr 22, 2021 4:27 pm I have some spare used adjusters on the shelf, just need to work out which side is which!

P.S. I believe callout #14 in the pic in the link below, courtesy of the MGOC Spares shop..

https://www.mgocspares.co.uk/acatalog/M ... __370.html

Okay, well, if you’re willing to come off a RH side one, let me know how much you need for it before I drill the backing plate. You are referring to the arm and not the toothed sprocket, correct?

Steve,

Brilliant idea on drilling the backing plate! Since I’ve got it apart still, I think I’ll go this route.

As I understand it’s the same part as on an MGC, I checked Brown and Gammons who do have the adjusters but only sold as a pair and for a fortune, MGOC showed they had some on their ...

Haven’t had any luck finding the RH side adjuster lever. Does the club have those or just the H pieces?