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Does anyone just want the bushes? I've got someone wanting me to split for the engine mount.

It has the rubber 'arms' go vertically - that lets it move a little front to rear to absorb vibration.
Although, many times I've put them in horizontally as a poor mans stiffened engine mount

Had a couple ask about holding these - sorry, but I've had a couple of people ask me that to start with, held onto them and then never heard back, hence wanting them out of the way, so I'm afraid it's just going to be first come, first served at this price. Billet washers: https://i.imgur.com/4xJgOt...

Sick of seeing these, someone get them out of my way

If bought together (1 x set of mounts, 1 x engine mount) I'll do the lot at £130 - so £40 discount - basically you get the engine mount for a tenner. It cost me more than that to make it just in materials

I've got 2 full sets of polyurethane bushes for the front subframes spare from the last group buy, due to non-contact/non-payment, they've collected enough dust over the past few months so I'm putting them back up for sale, first come, first served. You get 4 x Upper Poly Bushes, 4 x Upper Plastic i...

I took the subframe off to do mine, but you might be able to get it out by just lowering the subframe a little on the bolts (with a jack under it just in case)

It's only cooling whilst the solvent is on there the flash off. As soon as it dries it'll start warming again.

I think the only voice that you want to hear is your own. Check the title of the thread. People in here are after solutions to a problem, and all we've had so far is snide remarks about how we're all not fitting/adjusting them right, and one saying I should look at a different car because I don't l...

No, I'm just going to fix the problem and not have it hinder me any more, I've already sorted the rest of the brake system so it's better than when it came out of the factory, why settle for a sub-standard handbrake too?
Same as everyone else on here that isn't happy with theirs.

My handbrake has always been fine. . . . . . So far. Or to be exact. It needs the last click to be able to hold the car on a slope. It passes the MOT Ok, On that basis , I decided to leave well alone. Must say, on an everyday car, that isn't being hurled down the side of a Welsh mountain on a rally...

If you are so good at making stuff work perfectly, where is your solution that everyone can copy to repair their handbrakes. At least my solution works! I'm still waiting, I thought I might have been reading about it by now :roll: :shock: Your 'solution' is to clean and reset everything to how it s...

Open to sensible offers before they go on ebay

They're fine so long as you retain the cable setup too, whether on a seperate handbrake or linked the the hydraulic mechanism as a backup - we have to do that with the safari cars as they do plenty of road miles so need an IVA/MOT.

Bit overkill for a 406 though

Some of that, like you say, is down to the friction from running a single line with a splitter, you end up with a normal force at the split that's acting directly on the sheath, it doesn't help, but the geometery of the expanders and handbrake pivot are the worst issues (if you look at the handbrake...

:lol: So, you're telling me everyone on here bar you cannot make the handbrake work properly, just because you've worked as a mechanic for a while? Even though a massive amount of MOT failures for 406's are on handbrake efficiency? What are all those mechanics doing wrong? Or are they the wrong sort...