Rover 200 & 400 Owners Club

Shame about the new problems found i hope you can sort them all out.

Good news the trailing arm bushes are replaced.

Yeah ill sort them out. Easy enough todo and to be expected on such a high mileage car.

Also got new shocks and springs to fit at somepoint, they've been sat in my garage for nearly 2 years now! *laughs*

I use a recip saw works a treat pull arm down and put a wedge to hold it down then cut the little bugga twice careful not to cut into the arm but takes no Time at all

I found the bushes to be easy to remove with the aid of a decent sized hammer. Fitting new ones was equally simple

I replaced the rear trailing arm bushes on our 214 Gsi a couple of years ago, and did it with the trailing arm attached to the car. I replaced them with Powerflex polyurethane bushes which should last a lot longer that the after-market rubber ones that were fitted. They were rubbish. The Powerflex bushes do give a slightly firmer ride on rough surfaces but you soon get used to it.

I wrote an article about how to do it in The Viking, Spring 2011 issue p.14. Don't know if it's possible to access that through the Club website.

Cheers,
Hugh

No, but if your a member and want an electronic copy I can email it to people.