Perhaps a silly question I have just replaced my front right wishbone control arm bush, now it did seem to be a really tight fit and the rubber seemed to get squeezed out where the wishbone plug has gone in. Now I have bought this was from GFS http://www.gsfcarparts.com/423vg0540 and was wondering the if the right hand side means where you are sitting inside the car or if you are in front of the vehicle? The gusy at GFS told me when you're sitting inside the car, but my local mechaninc had issues getting it in and now you can see the metal sleeve where he's been trying to hammer it in with a socket and a hammer.

 

The car is going in for a MOT at noon so a bit worried about the whole thing.

 

 

sitting in the car - always.  SO if you are doing the RH unit that will be under the drivers feet

 

I have no idea what you mean by a "wishbone plug"

 

It should just slide straight on to the wishbone (after cleaning the shaft) with a bit of lube (rubber grease, dishwashing detergent, ky, etc) to help it on it's way with maybe a tap from a rubber mallet.

 

The unit going on should look like the unit coming off (minus the wear)

Thanks brad1.8t

 

I meant the wishbone shaft it doesn't look good like the other side the rubber around the metal sleeve is sticking out where he was hammering it in to me it looks like a bodge job, we shall see what the MOT guys will have to say. He did use hand wash liquid soap to give it some lube but I still have concerns.

sounds like he has damaged it from the hammering, it should slide on easily with lube such as ky or washing up liquid

It passed!

However I don't like the look of that

Edited 10 October, 201510 yr by arthurd123

The rubber on these is very hard, I do not think it will deform. It may be just a bit of excess rubber pushed out.

I have replaced mine using suspension oil for lube. I thought W U liquid degraded rubber, I maybe mistaken.

As it passed  the mot then I would not worry too much unless you believe there to be an issue.

 

Edit - have to agree though, I was surprised how easily they pushed on with a bit of lube.

Edited 10 October, 201510 yr by Tilt

Arthur: Yeah, that would annoy me too. looks like maybe the shaft could have been cleaner?

tilt, maybe washing up liquid does affect rubber but it's better than using engine oil, WD40, etc. I guess the question is "How quickly will it affect rubber?" and personal experience says "not very quickly at all" - I'm talking years & years. Ideally, rubber grease would be best but I have a garage full of clutter (but no rubber grease) & I'm trying to use up all my consumables.

I know it passed the MOT however the guy who owns the garage would never do that he has few people who work for him and they are careless when it comes to doing a decent job by the looks of things, it does annoy me when someone doesn't know how to put things together properly that is all. Parts should usually fit together I know sometimes brute force is required however by not damaging new parts altogether.

 

He should have given a scratch with a metal brush or little sand paper polish

Edited 12 October, 201510 yr by arthurd123