Thread: Quick question on 4wheeler with seized a-arm bushes..

Poor maintenance is not really Hondas fault is it.


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Originally Posted by MSL

Poor maintenance is not really Hondas fault is it.


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No. But a little grease at initial assembly would have prevented that and wouldn't have hurt Honda's profit margins I'm sure. Using fully hardened bush sleeves and hardened bolts on something like that is a bit of an interesting design choice, given the chassis design is a total corrosion trap and the a-arm mounts are buried in crud. All that needed to happen there was place the plate on top of the chassis tubes, not underneath.
Compounding that, was the placement of the lower bolt securing the diff in the chassis tub - right between the swingarm mounts literally in the crap with no drains for it to get out.

At least on automotive gear you usually have room to get a standard unmodified saw blade into the thing without having to grind it down - the whole setup could easily have been made a lot more user-friendly so you could at least clean the crap out of it with a waterblaster. I agree with the 50Kg of cowshit comment too, it just made the job so much more fun.