Monday, June 24, 2013 - 07:55 pm, by: Ian Johnston(Ted)
Bushings should be the same JZZ, and SC. Both spring suspension. The SC400 didnt get the airbag suspension that we did in the our UZZ31. Only springs same as our UZZ30.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013 - 06:26 am, by: Liviu Velisarie(Greenroadster)
...yes, but they dont import OEM parts for my car. I would have to buy them from tuning companies anyway. I need all bushings from upper/lower control arms and sway bar. Any advise on that? Should Megan Racing be an option? Anything else?
Wednesday, July 09, 2014 - 08:38 pm, by: Liviu Velisarie(Greenroadster)
Update: I bought a set of bushes from Peter, a set of 14 bushes that is, and received an extra 6! (bonus)
I took the car to my local garage and now I have a new problem. They don't know exactly how to do it. First, they never saw a Soarer before. Second, they never had a car older than 15 years in the garage before. And third, all the parts in the suspension had RUST. A 23 years old rust.
The problem that I face now is that any time soon a bolt or nut will break. I have the bushes, but the bolts are special ones, for fine tuning the geometry of the wheels.
Is there a place to order these bolts and nuts? Don't tell me a Toyota dealer because here they only want to sell hybrids....
Thursday, July 10, 2014 - 10:42 am, by: Tom Richards(Tomr)
forget a mechanic, take it to a suspension specialist. He will have the press etc to push out the old bushes and push in the new ones. Did you get instructions from peter taplin? there is an orientation when fitting the bushes to get even tension on both sides. when the arms are fitted to the car, get the cars weight on them before tensioning the arm mounting bolts.
Thursday, July 10, 2014 - 10:28 pm, by: Liviu Velisarie(Greenroadster)
Thanks for the links - they are almost helpful. I will look for a diagram or schematics also. Update - they changed the front lower and upper bushes and only one bolt cracked. They did a copy at a DAF truck service nearby - 15$. The bad news until now - left front brake caliper had a stuck piston and the steering box has a leak. And now, the hard part - the rear subframe bushes is next. After this, I really hope that 20 new bushes will keep my Soarer happy on the road.
Saturday, July 12, 2014 - 08:05 pm, by: Ben Lipman(Ben12a)
That is a lot of rust. I think you would benefit from actually buying a whole bunch of second hand SC400/300 suspension parts from the US or maybe aftermarket from the UK. Make sure you get all the nuts, bolt and washers. Even though the parts will be 15 - 20 years old, they are likely to be in much better shape than the ones you have now.
Monday, July 14, 2014 - 06:39 pm, by: Liviu Velisarie(Greenroadster)
Well, I don't know if it was for the salty roads or not, I owned for 2 years and the car has 23...
Either way, I am determined to restore it and make it great again.
Update: The garage manage to change only 12 bushes and the two for the steering rack they recommend to be changed when I fix the leak. So, 14. 6 to go (I had a set of 20 from Peter Taplin).
So, the 6 bushes that remain, well, they don't know exactly were are they from. If I would find out, they will try to change them, but for now, they are stuck.
The 6 are the following bushes:
And the ones that they already put looks like this:
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