Newbie With Some Good Info !

RABSLEXUS · July 10, 2006

i recently bought an ls440 to run around in now realising its totally too big for my wife to use as a daily drive. but the point of this post is that it was needing an mot before i could advertise it for sale. so i went about putting it through its mot and there was a clunk coming from the rear under braking. it was the bush in the trailing arm at the hub side. lexus quoted £160 for the hub carrier but said there is usually consequential damage when removing it. ie, wheel bearings , ball joints, seals etc etc.. and my bill could be 6/7/800 pounds and up ! but as i only see the car being worth £2000 i wasnt willing to do this. so i called a lexus parts place to see if it could be fitted seperately and they too said no. but they use a modified supra bush at £17 from the dealer which works perfectly when modified a little to fit hence the saving of enough money for a holiday for 2 people ! total cost to fit !£60 ! bargain ! i will apologise in advance to you all if this is old news to you guys ! cheers rab..newbie !

chips229 · July 10, 2006

Hi,

Thanks for the info :)

Did you mean LS430?

RABSLEXUS · July 11, 2006

Hi,
Thanks for the info :)

Did you mean LS430?

no ls400 but they might be a similar fix !

maneesh · July 11, 2006

Awesome info..thanks..

You know you can get a poly bush made for the LS400..for around the same price as the modified Supra bush..

see here - useful for others as they do all kinds of poly bushes for Lexus/Toyota cars (adus 505 is the one I used on my LS400)

http://www.lpdauto.com/display.asp?id_make=4#null

They don't do international orders, so get an American friend to order them for you.

This link tells you how to change the bushes out

http://www.lexls.com/tutorials/suspension/rcabushings.html

Alex JB · July 11, 2006

Wow, that LexLS site tutorials are amazing! Think I'll get my little nipper to change the oil for me, he can't read but he could do it just from the pictures!