New bushings

[Art Garcia]

Hi after 2 years of not moving my XJ I feel very unestable when driveing even at low speed, I suspect the problem is the bushings, I want to change almost all of them any sugestions where to buy and have a good price?

I don´t want any fancy brand I spect to sell the XJ in around 2 years

 

[Rick Anderson]

Bushings usually don't go bad from just sitting, but rubber does dry rot, so its possible.

I would think shocks would be more likely to go bad from just sitting, the strut rod corrodes and then when you finally do use it, the rusted, flaking and pitted rod moving in and out of the shock cuts up the seals and the shocks are shot.

Unless you've decided to just rebuild the entire suspension, I think it would be smarter to inspect and test the parts and find what is really wrong and needs to be fixed. Feeling unstable is not really a good diagnosis technique to figure out if the bushings are bad. It could be shocks, swaybars bushings/endlinks, wheel bearings, ball joints, tie-rods, maybe one bushing is really bad and all the rest are good, it could even be the tires that have been sitting stationary for 2 years.

I'd first put the car up on jack stands and inspect/test/check everything on the suspension, and make your shopping list up from what parts look the worse first. It should be much cheaper and a more likely to solve the problem quicker.

 

[Art Garcia]

Bushings usually don't go bad from just sitting, but rubber does dry rot, so its possible.

I'd first put the car up on jack stands and inspect/test/check everything on the suspension, and make your shopping list up from what parts look the worse first. It should be much cheaper and a more likely to solve the problem quicker.

I would think shocks would be more likely to go bad from just sitting, the strut rod corrodes and then when you finally do use it, the rusted, flaking and pitted rod moving in and out of the shock cuts up the seals and the shocks are shot.

Unless you've decided to just rebuild the entire suspension, I think it would be smarter to inspect and test the parts and find what is really wrong and needs to be fixed. Feeling unstable is not really a good diagnosis technique to figure out if the bushings are bad. It could be shocks, swaybars bushings/endlinks, wheel bearings, ball joints, tie-rods, maybe one bushing is really bad and all the rest are good, it could even be the tires that have been sitting stationary for 2 years.


Thanks for your input, I´ll inspect the suspension carefully this weekend, the shoks feel ok, when I pass a bumb the XJ feel firm, the shooks was almost new before i seet the XJ, I know the rod can be corroed but I don´t very sure.

If the seals of the shooks are broken, the oil start to show in the shook isn´t? I can not see any oil leak in the shook.