Replacing SUSPENSION ARM BUSHINGS - DIY / S5-Ep9
In this episode we rebuild the front lower suspension arm bushings. They lasted only about 120000 km on our Land Rover Discovery 3. It was the second time we replaced them on our Truck after another 100000 km. We rebushed the OEM arms instead of buying cheap aftermarket replacement arms. We also manufactured tooling to press them into the arms on our lathe.
Please remember, we are not liable for any harm you do to your car, your engine, your surroundings, your marriage or yourself. Use the information given in this video at your own risk.
Parts used in this episode (Discovery 3 2006 EU3):
Front lower ball joints Dephi TC1963
Front lower rear bushings (from Armored Vehicle) Lemförder 3401701
Front lower front bushings (regular) Lemförder 34389
Link to our Ball Joint Tool Kit in the Video
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Vera & Christian
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Your thumbnails look more and more like Pirelli Calanders every week. Thanks for sharing
What blows me away is that you know so much about every part of the car Christian! I spent two hours trying to undo the nut on the rear wheel axle of my Austin A30 only to be told it was a left hand nut! Grrrr. You are both so clever.
Oh you must be new. If you like our video, then check out more. 😅👍Then you know why. 🙋♀️
We struggle just like you but I cut the video at the end and make it look easy. Christian
They are Germans! 😂😂😂
@@Vera_and_ChristianLol !!!
Christian is a 'God' of Landrovers!
I hate throwing away things like suspension arms, for the sake of changing the bushes. But you can see why most car workshops replace the entire suspension arms for new ones with the bushes already fitted. When you include the labour costs, for them it is cheaper to do it that way. But what a waste! Well done for doing the job the right way, without wasting a perfectly serviceable suspension arm. However…………! I have chased a similar sound to what your new, what you think is rubber to metal noise on my RR Sport for 2 years. This noise is always worse in the dry Summer, but almost disappears in the wet Winter. We have changed every suspension arm bush and the sway bar bushes. The noise continued. But we have recently replaced the front wheel bearings and whether it was the bearings or the fact that we replaced the bush bolts for new ones at the same time, the noice has finally completely gone………..we hope😊it will stay that way when it eventually stops raining here! Thanks as always for your fantastic videos.
"The thing is, if I'm doing that, it's German precision, no matter what I do." 🤣🤣🤣 Oh, Christian, I love your sense of humor ❤❤.
Your sense of humour makes my day every time I watch your videos 😂❤
Lovely to see a happy married couple working and laughing together! Of course the technical knowledge is great also , and as a Landy owner Disco 2 , it is interesting to watch. Great to see you using and loving "copper grease" , or "Kopper Kote" as it's called in Australia. Cheers Gregg.
So glad you guys chose Land Rover rather than Toyota. Otherwise, we'd only see a video every few years!
I think after our Disco 4 engine rebuild, I will buy a Toyota, most likely a Pickup, and show you guys what needs to be done on a Toyota. Just because you don't do anything, doesn't mean nothing needs to be done. 😅👍🙋♀️
Yeah, like how to make coffee and pour coffee and drink coffee….!! Your videos are the best.
Yeah, like how to make coffee and pour coffee and drink coffee….!! Your videos are the best.
Every Man should have a Vera she's lovely bless her.
A lot of men don't deserve a Vera. They are great but you must look after them.
You are a superb engineer, your knowledge and attention to detail is superb.
HE is German dont you know
@@keithjefferies9862 would never ever have guessed
Your last episode inspired me to repair my under engine shield which was hanging on last 2 bolts. Now i feel like proper mechanic :)
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Wow, you made that whole job look easy. Had a chuckle at all the one-liners & innuendos 🤣 You know when it's a big job when Christian is in the kitchen, firing up the lathe & milling machine to make custom one of a kind tooling. A brilliant video, Christian & Vera 👏
Lady Vera, Danke - mit *Deutschem Humor.. Freude und Lachen - Kompetente Arbeiten zu machen - 'Mit Christian - Seid - ein 'Tolles Gespann, darf ich sagen. Macht Freude - Euch - zuzusehen, immer wieder - nehme ich 'Neues - auf. Herzlichst,
Vera's laugh when she realises it no longer squeals was one of pure happiness.👍
Greetings Guys, I love Sunday nights - it German night! Must watch TV - LR Time followed by Laura Kampf. These videos you make on owning and repairing Land Rovers and Range Rovers are fantastic. So much easier to own a Toyota, never do anything other than fluids, filter and tyres - and watch you guys every week doing major surgery to your chariots! It amazes me that all this work is done outside with mostly hand tools and skill. Rain, hail or shine or snow, you are always there doing the hard work, while some of us are sat on the couch, in the Air Cond, eating up the great content you produce. Really love your work and especially the team work! Can't wait for the next exciting episode. Cheers from Perth Western Australia :)
Your English is very good. Nice work.
BRILLIANT VERA AND CHRISTIAN, THANK YOU
you are insanely skilled and your relationship is beautiful, I'm here because it is a pleasure to see your german precision at work (I don't even have a LR and worse I am a crappy desktop mechanic), greetings from France ;)
Good morning, here starts my Sunday!! Love you guys.
Nice to see you teaching Vera how to change bushes
Bin ein LR Fan …. Besitze leider noch keinen …. Eure Video‘s mit eurem Wissen und euer Humor ist der Hammer…. Macht weiter so finde euch klasse ❤Lg aus Aachen
You guys are so much fun to watch! Great knowledge and lots of humor, thank you :)
Good job, I dont know what you would do without Vera!
„Da bin ich“ ..😂 Fun dynamic watching you two work together!
Vera is very patient! wow!
You guys are brilliant. So, in-depth in what you do with a hint of comedy. Love it 😀
Just love watching the both of you! Funny and informative.
Fast paced! One of your best vids yet! 💪🏻👌🏻🤙🏻
Good planning on Christian's part in incorporating an arm work out for Vera!
Good morning from Canada. Perfect motivation to get back under my LR3 and run some new brake lines. Thank you both for the wonderful content.
You are a machine you make it look so easy and you have all the tools and a beautiful wife. Thank you enjoyed the video very much!
I have been busy today so my fix had to wait until 1800 hrs and didn’t disappoint. Keep up the fantastic work. Stay safe both of you..
Enjoy watching you guys every week. The Germans are the only other European country to master sarcasm.
Tool for every job and a man to make the tool for every job 👏👏👏
I don't follow many KZhead channels. But you guys are A Frinkin pleasure to watch. Great content and knowledgeable advice. We have a 4.6 D2 and Td4 Flander 05 facelift. Love them both. Thanks for your work.. love from Australia 🇦🇺
Nice and correctly carried out job👍
you get them bushes out the same way i used to nice work .thank you for the video
Good evening Vera and Christian 😊 German 🇩🇪 engineering at its best 👍🏻 This video helped relax while I wait for my ferry to Belfast 🤩 No Queen this week 😢 Kisses and hugs for Vera 🤗 xx until next week thanks Stevie 👍🏻🏴
Thank you. B4 I came across your channel Land Rovers cost a lot to insure & that I have never owned 1. Because you 2 get on so well it is a joy to watch & learn (the learning is that there is a lot more to fixing)
You guys are so lucky 🍀 In Scotland,this job takes another 8 hours due to all our salty roads!
😅👍This Disco is freshly rebuild and gets treated with copper grease on a very regular basis. 👌🙋♀️
The speed you dismantle the whole suspension is amazing using proper tools. Thats the way to do it and indeed get grease all over.
GOOD MORNING ....I can't go anywhere until I've seen this weeks video. I always wondered what to do.....Have a great Sunny Sunday!
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The Dutch fanclub has a perfect front suspension bushing. Happy Sunday 🎉
Good to know the old BF&I method still works - brute force and ignorance!. Not that I ever had to use it to remove bushings without damaging a suspension arm, nice work Kristian. And nice shoes Vera 🙂
Good morning Christian and vera😊 you made that look so easy.preperation is the key to successful jobs.great engineering making your own tools.looking forward to the strip down of the new discovery 4😊😊
Happy Sunday to you all another video "oh my god" 👍🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
I think Vera deserves 30 more minutes of recess for all the great work filming.
And a snack
Just had my lower control arms done by Roving Mechanical Syd they just replace the whole arm you guys are just awsome love your vids lying in bed watching and laughing cheers guys from down under
Do they recycle the arms by rebuilding them in a workshop or do they use all-new arms?
Think I might try some anti seize on my bad knee! No mountain biking or running since last may! Slowly improving watching the best comedy duo to come out of germany since Auf wiedersehen pet! ❤
Gosh I love your channel! Lots of appreciation from South Africa!
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how does someone find joy in grease!!!!!!!!!! bloody hilarious🥰
Oh my gawd. Timely video as i.need to do mine. I also have those Bahco ratcheting circlip pliers. What a fantastic tool!
I can see my lower bushes are flogged out. I have a noise but think it's coming from the top of my left strut.
Always have tool envy when I watch 🤣
Brilliant videos.
a good press is such a useful thing to have.
Brilliant his knowledge is amazing
Hi, OH FOR THE LOVE OF YOUR LADY WITH A DISCO 3, saved money on GYM fees when hand pumping the press , always fun to watch . Have fun .😉👍👍
You can't argue with German precision eye-balling. My family owned a wheel alignment and brake shop for 50-odd years. This video is like mother's milk for me. Nice.
😅👍We already did the alignment, but had to no time to film it. 🙋♀️
Christian I like your snap ring removal tool. It is well built.
One more time. Super job.
Your persistence is remarkable! I would have set the Rovers on fire long time ago. Greetings from a vintage Toyota owner.
Very interesting video, thank you.
Wonderful video - thankyou
ZF owns Lemforder for a long time now . They definitely have the best suspension parts .
Great timing! I am replacing my lower arms next week..they have a poly bush in front lower rear bush and the ride is very harsh..hopeing this will improve with new standard bushings 🤞 Great video 👌
I've recently discovered non-abrasive nylon and CSD discs of various form-factors, for grinders and drills. You may never use a wire brush or sanding disc again. Also, ceramics grease replaces copper and aluminum grease pretty well without worrying about electrical corrosion - learned that from Mercedes dealer mechanics as they apparently use that just everywhere.
Love you Guys well done !!
I put polybushes on my Range Rover Classic many years ago ... and then replaced them quickly with OEM 😁 Worst part was as ever, getting the old ones out like you .. and repeated visits to a workshop with a big press !! Best Sunday start as always
Just had mine replaced and the ARB bushes with polyurethane ones . Rides so much better now .
Another successful poke in the eye to the desk top mechanics!!!✌️😂😂😂😂😂❤️❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧❤️❤️
Such an immensely satisfying video to see all those bolts come out easily. I know it's from your earlier hard work, but still. Your timing is excellent as I am prepping to do the rear bushings in my L322. On my old series landrover I just burn the rubber out with a torch and then do the same as you did with the saw and chisel.
😅👍We can't do that and show it on KZhead. 🙋♀️
Looked like a lot of hard work - not that I am afraid of hard work, I can sit and watch it anytime! 😁 (very old joke)
When you have time, do a video on changing the brake servo/booster. Love your videos.
Bro great job and sweet work shop u got
I'll watch the transfer box video, I watch them all, they are most informative even if I don't own a Land Rover, It's nice to see an engineer at work & I so much love the humour of you both, It used to be said by the British that the German's haven't got a sense of humour, we must have got it wrong with the humour you both have
Honestly! Your garage and workshop 12:00 is the size of my first home!
Their garage and workshop is the size of my CURRENT home! 😅 I'm so envious!
😅 OMG 🙋♀️
Always a joy to watch. As a English speaking German couple with a great sense of humour, you must seek out and watch a British drama/comedy from the early 80s called, "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet". About a group of builders from the Geordieland (Newcastle) going of to work in West Germany. I'm sure you'd really enjoy it.
One of the few benefits of a d4 over a d3. Nice to see LR tried to make an ease of maintenance improvement... love the group head slap 😆
I've seen that script too many times. "One thing fixed, now 10 other related things need repair as well." 😂 Thanks for the fantastic videos. Cheers from New Zealand.
Thank you for your vídeo
Thanks Vers for reminding us about the clutch pedal. You won’t find a Discovery 3/4 with one of those in South Africa. Changed the tie rod ends myself and had that “not straight” steering wheel issue and suspension issue. Alignment fixed it.
I do like watching your videos I've just done new front arms on my disco 4 but it was more cost effective to replace the full arm the bushes and ball joint came to more than what a full are cost :)
Nice job saved more money!
Amazing job Christian I am convinced you are English being so clever. English precision 😂😂😂
You guys are the best
Morning guys 👍👍👍
Christian, I would love to have a workshop like yours. I would be in there everyday tinkering and making 'stuff'! Also, your lift makes life working on cars so much easier, rather than lying on your back in the dirt. How else would you be able to use your long handled torque wrench?! You and Vera make the whole workshop process fun! Land Rovers, turning owners into mechanics, everyday! 😂
You can work that torque wrench with out a lift. We don't have our lift that long. You just don't have as much leverage and need to remount it more. But no problem. 👍👌🙋♀️
I Guys I love Sunday videos keep going with the video ❤😂
Another great video Christian but the thumbnail picture wow! You lucky man
Nice Video 🙂
"They should call it whatever I call it." Haha. Reminds me when that British guy from We Are Big Kids was replacing his and he couldn't get the bolt out after wrenching on it for hours/days, only to realize he had been tightening the bolt all along. Still had to cut them out if I remember correctly. I felt so bad for him as I've been "2 days into a 2-hour job" before myself.
I know that video. Very funny guy. Christian
Thank you.
Hi from Iceland, hope you make more video's, fun video
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“This gunna be a big debarkel upto divorce” 🤣🤣
So easy 😂Good job 👍
Thanks =) nice video -- i must look and see if i can find a video of the mounting of your lift. I guess i need to buy more tools. The ball joint kit, looks nice.
We two videos, in 2022 I think. 👍🙋♀️
Terrific days work, phew, most shops would take twice the time. I need a beer and hot toastie to cool off.
thats how tutorials should be, fast and to the point and funny too and thats from somebody that hates working on landrovers😁😁
Yes absolutely, but about 10 hours of editing goes into a video like ours. 👌👍🙋♀️
Hi Christian and Vera. I have a Toyota FJ Cruiser with 226000km. A similar noise turned out to be bottom shock mount bush. Easier to replace my shocks but they are not air shocks like yours. Hello from Australia.
Awesome work as always. I prefer to just buy the Meyle HD lower arms for the better rubber bushes and upgraded ball joints. The cost is worth it IMO.
An air chisel is very effective too👍