Morris Minor Owners Club

I have decided that while I am round the the front end of the car that the tie rod bushes looked rotten, a split pin missing from one of them and when removing them from the yoke a BSF bolt with UNF nut on !, stripped so enter careful use of angle grinder and chisel. So that's done, removed the rods, cleaned them up, coat of paint etc.

After reading some posts ordered some poly and rubber bushes, rubber for the back and poly for the front, and some new cup washers as they are past thier best.

The new bushes, both types have a definate chamfer on one end and are more radiused on the other. Logic to me says that the chamfer would fit to the cup washer and the radius end to the car. Is my logic and thinking correct though ??.

The workshop manual seems to make no mention of the tie rods, only by way of removing them to strip the lower arm.

You did better than me with the angle grinder then! I posted in the Wanted section some time ago with no response, but if anyone has a spare unbutchered tie rod I'd be very interested.

Mark

The nut was loose, just would not wind off. Careful nick with the grinder, one good whack with a chisel and off.

Why someone felt the need to force the wrong nut on don't know, obviously not knowing bsw and bsf.

My tie bars are fine, just an overhaul required otherwise you would be welcome to them.

When it comes to the bushes, what is available on the market is much too hard. I cast my own bushes with urethane and they have been on the car for four and a half years and are still perfect. I am toying with the idea of making them professionally.

Regards
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Declan, seems at the moment in the absence of anything else that a poly for the front and rubber for the rear works, I agree that the poly one is really hard.

If you make them I would buy them, also interested in the other gaskets you are making, tappet chest seals especially as I had a right game getting them to seal, and now have the engine under rebuild again.

If I ever get over to Dusseldorf again I will have to come and find you, stayed there earlier in the year as we have an office in Kreffeld.

Mark Wilson wrote:You did better than me with the angle grinder then! I posted in the Wanted section some time ago with no response, but if anyone has a spare unbutchered tie rod I'd be very interested.


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