LZY13B build thread

[NGT18T]

dog bone is easy as. Just cut the old out with a hacksaw blade, its only a plastic casing or use a vice to push it out and the new one i pushed in by hand. Only took me 30mins

[LZY13B]

dog bone is easy as. Just cut the old out with a hacksaw blade, its only a plastic casing or use a vice to push it out and the new one i pushed in by hand. Only took me 30mins

Was gonna give it a go but been under the car enough recently and easier with a hoist and the bloke is gonna do it for free anyway

[LZY13B]

Pulled out my shocks again today to replace the strut top covers and bearings and when I looked at the old ones they fell apart on me haha they were completely gone



Just driving around the block I’ve notice it’s a lot smoother now and the steering feels much better.
I also pulled out the dogbone to replace the bushing but the standard ones looks to be in perfect condition so I left it for now maybe in a few weeks I’ll hack it up and replace it with the superpro one

[sambb]

Yeah the strut top bearings have been the bane of my life. I've swapped out 3 shagged ones in total and what I have in now is noisy as hell. They don't like you putting neg camber in from the bottom I can tell you that much. RE the dogbone, even if the bridges between the voids in the bush material are in tact, the bush is terrible. There is just so much movement. Once you have the new ones in it feels transformed.

[LZY13B]

Got myself some honeycomb lower grills thought they would just swap over easy but I was wrong lol looks like it will be a bit of a struggle to get them to click in properly but they do look nice

[NGT18T]

ive got them on mine. the centre grill goes in no problem but ive had problems with the outside ones coming lose i have to kick them back in place everyday when i walk out of work kind of a ritual now hahaha. I did use a die grinder and cut some of the outside honeycombs out looks better and you get that air flowing around more.

[LZY13B]

just playing around with it at work for a few minutes the middle grill feels like it will take a bit of force and messing around to click in 100% and the drivers side isnt too bad cos it has a screw to keep it in place but the passenger side looks like it will just pop off completely with a few bumps haha

im too lazy to cut up the side grills i think they will look fine i just hope i dont end up pulling the whole front bar off to get them all to click in properly lol

[LZY13B]

Did a little work on the polo today I installed the superpro dogbone bushing wasn’t too bad to install. Took it around the block and honestly can’t really feel any difference but I’ll see over the next few days.

Also installed the honey comb grills they look longer to install and clip in properly than doing the dogbone haha but they look good and I’m happy with it

[LZY13B]

Last bushings done changed the sway bar busbes so all bushings in the front end have now been changed to superpro one. The car is feeling a lot better now I noticed the sway bar bushings have made it smoother over bumpy roads so that’s a big bonus.

For some reason tho after changing the strut top covers and bearings and dogbone I’ve noticed a little creaking in the suspension when taking off in first and can’t figure out why checked all bushings and everything even tried the wd40 trick as we shake the car with no luck.
Was thinking any chance the little rubber flex bushing in the dogbone when it pivots can fail? It’s looking a little brittle and that’s the only thing I can think of that could cause it on acceleration. Anyone got some advice?

[sambb]

Unless its a really outrageous sound I doubt you'd have a problem. Once the flex is taken out of the bushes the forces get passed through to somewhere else on the chassis. I must admit I've found the Polo to be the noisiest car I've ever owned in that respect.