eggy790

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bloody hell just checked .. the perrin is like £70 more than the whiteline 24mm..is there no way that the whiteline bar can be used with the perrin stout mounts?

Dave Y

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if only mine had fitted..........A bargain!
Just about to sort your paypal out.

Arch

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I personally would not trust TSL one bit. I bought a set of Perrin 6 speed shifter bushes from them and they did not fit my Hawkeye 6 speed linkage. Initially he repsonded to my emails but then stopped and refused to reply.

It is difficult to use the perrin stout mounts with a Whiteline bar other than the 22mm ones as the bush carriers are a different shape to accomodate the different shape of Perrin bush. So with a rear whiteline 22mm bar just use the Perrin 22mm bushes and the stout mounts. If you go to a 24mm bar then you have problems as the Perrin bushes are 25mm so cant be used with a 24mm bar. The perrin bushes have an edge on either side to retain the bush clamp, the whiteline ones do not and what happens is the bush migrates out of the bush clamp. When i went to a 24mm rear bar i modified the perrin bush carrier by welding small bush retaining strips to the side of the perrin bush clamp.
Hope that makes sense, it does to me

53

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+1 useless ! The margins of error for the welding on Perrin bars is poor. Such was the angle of attachment on my rear bar that is touched the rear control arm. I was told it was the drop links to which I provided photo evidence that the drop links were identical. Next I was told to file down the control arm, nice ! People bang on about Whiteline being poor in UK weather for rusting, but I have Whiteline on my wagon and they're fine and they have a far superior aftersales to Perrin lol.

You might want to consider ebaying the stout mounts ? and going Whiteline.

Dave Y

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Refund has been sent.

eggy790

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cheers dave.

and thanks guys, i think i might just go whiteline.. but stick standard on for time being, if i got to get new arb mounts for the whiteline 24mm bar.

i'll get the arb in the post mon/tues dave.

Cheers

eggy790

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just reading your post again arch..

it sounds like ive got to make a lip like this on either side.. on the 24mm bushes?



not sure if i wanna bodge it

bigarf

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i had this same problem when i first fitted my whiteline 24mm rear arb.i was sent the wrong one for my car and it fitted just like the one in your pictures,i sent it back and was sent the correct one which fitted spot on.

Arch

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There isnt really any way to bodge the bushes but the Perrin clamp can be altered if you have access to a welder and a little patience. Perrin do the rear bars in 22mm and 25mm poss bigger but these are the sizes in question. As you can see the Perrin bushes have a lip on either side, the perrin stout mount bush clamp sits in the middle of the bush and the two lips on the bush keep the clamp in place. If you use a whiteline 24mm bar the bushes do not have the lip either side so would just migrate out of the clamp, I know it happened to me. To solve this i weldded some strips to the side of the Perrin clamp to retain the white line bushes. If you dont want to do this then your only option is to sell the perrin stout mounts and go back to the standard mount or buy the whiteline stout mounts.

CDF Racing

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After reading through this lot I really need to get my bars sorted asap!!

Arch

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The bars arent the issue here chris its the Perrin stout mounts which use a diffrent style bush from the whiteline and standard bushes. That said bet you could produce a decent stout mount if someone provided you with a template and some "adjusted" bush carriers

eggy790

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just an update gopt my new 24mm whiteline bar fitted on hard setting, with no problems.. and i take back what i said, the difference is huge! defo worth all the hassle lol loads more fun!

thanks guys for your help

o and the perrin stout mounts are for sale if anyone is interested.. practically new. £70 for anyone on here