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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Topic started by: Chris. on 18 December 2011, 20:41
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Has anyone polybushed the steering rack on their mk4?
Did you feel any difference?
Chris
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nope
but iam gonna :smiley: :cool:
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Feel a tiny bit more through the steering wheel but nothing significant.
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You done yours?
How hard is it to do?>
Thinking of doing the rest of the car TBH
stock ARB droplinks (unless I can find suitable upgrades)
steering bush
rear axle
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My entire car is polybushed, I done the steering rack bush when I fitted my neuspeed front and rear antiroll bar kit which included rose jointed droplinks. I left the wishbones attached, just disconnected the droplinks and dropped the steering rack, subframe, dog bone mount and that's it. Honestly though, I wouldn't bother with it if that's the only reason for removing the subframe, the annoying part was trying to align the holes for the bolts for steering rack up to the subframe and the subframe to the body.
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Ahh, sounds like a nightmare then. Think ill cross that one off my list.
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Steering rack + subframe bolt alignment = Pain in the arse.
Found out twice :lipsrsealed:
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Ill pass then.
Was considering a front rollbar but put off with the hassle of fitting it because im lazy.
Im going to get rear beam bushes and send her for 4 wheel alignment
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I think you will like the rear axle bushes, it's money well spent. There wasn't much clearance between my front antiroll bar and the steering rack mounting as I had the 25mm front antiroll bar fitted, maybe 1-2mm gap between them and the steering rack has to be bolted up first, which meant you couldn't move the subframe around much. I also recommend getting the alignment done on the hunter hawk eye machine, I got an ideal amount of caster on the front to give me the best balance between straight line performance and handling whilst the caster is as much as I could get.
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can you not slide it off from over the track rod end? Obvilously keep rack in situ and just undo the clamp for bush?
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You can do it like you said, just undo the 2 bolts holding the clamp to the subframe, two nuts holding the steering rack line to the clamp from the engine bay and slide the bush out. It might be a bit fidgety but if you can slide the bush towards the driver side it might be easier because the steering rack is thinner towards the driver side than where it sits when mounted.
I only dropped my subframe because I was fitting my antiroll bar at the same time, but even so didn't have to support the subframe after unbolting it.