anyone having issues with bad bushings on rubi express lift. My rears have gone bad twice in 2 years.

 

You know I think your putting them on wrong. I dont have the rubicon express left but on my old lift, the bushing would keep ripping off. when put on my new lift i noticed i had the old ones on worng.

Now I havent had a problem

 

never heard of that......

Actually RE bushings have been blowin and suckin since the late 90's

 

[QUOTE=El Jay;1858219]Have you ever ran RE arms? I had them on my XJ and on my JK now, and I've never had a problem.

Good god no, years of bushing failures doesn't set well with me. Kudos to u for having no probs, I know alotta peeps who have.

 

you are having problems with them because RE bushings suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

they did have bad batches of bushings from the manufacturer, so they say. you need the info of when you purchased your lift with proof of receipt or invoice, something stating when you bought. i would not even bother calling them until you have this info ready. i called the company who i purchased through and had them send me the invoice from original purchase of the lift. most likely if you are within their "bad batch" time frame (which they will not tell you dates), they will replace free of cost on parts, but you have to do it yourself or pay for labor cost.

personally, i dont know what happen to this company, yes most of their products are great, but they have really gone down the toilet last few years in customer service and company policies to help their customers out.

yes i have same problem, have for a long time, just ended up doing it myself and said F*&^ RE!! I am slowly changing out their parts for other brands

 

The dealer purchased and installed lift. I had them do it as soon as jeep came in from factory. They replace free under warrenty the first time and are waiting from reply from RE to find out WTF! I would think they'd have a product that would last more than a year for they're 4k price tag.

 

is it safe to assume that you have the 4.5" long arm kit? also, is it safe to assume that you are mainly blowing out your rear bushings? if so, this is a very common problem and one caused by the a radius arm design.

 

[QUOTE=wayoflife;1859345]is it safe to assume that you have the 4.5" long arm kit? also, is it safe to assume that you are mainly blowing out your rear bushings? if so, this is a very common problem and one caused by the a radius arm design.[/QUOTE

is it a design flaw with radius arms, design flaw in the re kit or one of those "nature of the beast" type things with radius arms? im curious because you are specifically stating the re 4.5" la kit which seems to have the most issues

re just was not helpful in my case. got the explanation of "bad batch" or install error and stil no help. i do understand bushing preload and alll that stuff and was not an instal error.

 

[QUOTE=El Jay;1858350]very true, i would have continued my business wth them if they had taken care of the problem and they do have many great products. but in my case they did not, handled poorly, so my business has grown towards other companies now.

 

that's what I was thinking here we go again......