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[mathewst]

how easy or difficult are these to change on the mig?.
There is a how to on the wishbones and bushes but what abou replacing just the bushes and droplinks?

[feeutfo]

drop links (shock body to anti roll bar) are easy, wheel off, 2 bolts one top and bottom. Lever the roll bar to line up when re fitting.

Not sure what you mean by stab links?

[mathewst]

sorry chris I meant front bushes in the link below
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VAUXHALL-OMEGA-VECTRA-95-FRONT-STAB-LINK-BUSH-KIT-6228_W0QQitemZ370299429723QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item563790e35b
 
What excatly do you mean to lever the roll bar.
Could you please explain a little?
Thanks

[RobG]

sorry chris I meant front bushes in the link below
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VAUXHALL-OMEGA-VECTRA-95-FRONT-STAB-LINK-BUSH-KIT-6228_W0QQitemZ370299429723QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item563790e35b
 
What excatly do you mean to lever the roll bar.
Could you please explain a little?
Thanks

Commonly known as anti-roll bar bushes. Easy to change, 2 bolts each side holding bracket, change them with all 4 wheels on the ground

[RobG]

Droplink and bush/bracket shown

[mathewst]

So if I get this right I should remove one wheel then replace the droplink, reatach the wheel. Zhen do the other one.
After this only when all wheels are on the ground I should replace the anti-rool bar bushes.
Please correct me if I got something wrong

[Turk]

Yep, front anti-roll bar bushes are just two bolts on each one, but I could only get a quarter turn on the spanner, so it's a fiddle with undoing and re-tightening. A ratchet spanner made things easier.   
Well worth doing. I fitted poly-bush jobbies and it's surprising the difference they made.
May be a problem getting the poly-bushes at the moment as Powerflex have recently had a major fire at their factory, but you should notice an improvement with  new standard bushes. 

[mathewst]

What is the difference between standard and poly bushes?

[Omegadoha, Desert Member]

Are these anti roll bar bushes in the maintenance section? And what purpose do they serve?

[feeutfo]

Are these anti roll bar bushes in the maintenance section? And what purpose do they serve?

I'll have a go at this one, see if i gets it right.

Afaik. Anti roll bar stops the car rolling so much in the corners, it links the two suspension struts on the front in a way that lifts the inner wheel(or resists the suspensions return stroke) into the wheel arch so the inside suspension does not extend as much, meaning the car stays flatter in a turn. As i understand it anyway, certainly open to be corrected.

Also has the same on the rear but its connected to the trailing arms.

In order to work the roll bar must be attached to the chassis to keep the twist spring effect on which the principle works. The bushes related to it iirc are located  under the air inlet (bag pipes?) rearward of the radiator.

Probably all the wrong terminology, but thats how i think it works from working on the car. As said, open to correction.....

[sandune]

That was well put. Understood  how the conponents inter-acted. Perfect!!!

[Omegadoha, Desert Member]

Thanks for the explaination Chris.

[feeutfo]

your welcome. Lets hope i'm not talking rubbish.

Thinking about it further,(always a bad idea, i should quit while i'm ahead) it also works the other way. The unloaded wheel also pushes the loaded wheel down into the road. I'll stop now, i'm in the pub. Wahay.