Greetings to all,

first of all apologies for intruding on your forum as a non Ford owner, with the exception of two bushings.

For my sins I own a 1999 Bentley Arnage Green label, the one with the BMW V8 twin turbo. I was doing some work replacing various pulleys when I realized that my water pump also needed replacing. Long story short, there are two pipes/tubes that run from the back of the engine through the V of the engine to the water pump. If you are lucky, the pipes release at the water pump side so all you need is 2 new O rings, put the new pump on and Bob’s your uncle. If you are unfortunate, one of both pipes release at the back of the engine which means, intercooler, manifold etc out as the O rings at the back need to be replaced to avoid a leakage. You guessed it, one pipe came off at the back so off with the whole kit and kaboodle. 
You may well ask, what has this to do with the price of fish. Well the intercooler sits on 2 bushings, see attached pic which act purely as a dampener , the whole load is about 5kg. On the two bushings , see below it is clearly visible that it says FORD. It may be presumptuous but I figured, okay must be a Ford part. Hence, reaching out to all of you.

I have contacted various Bentley dealers, HQ, aftermarket parts dealer, etc, part is NLA and please leave us alone but we’d be more than happy to sell you a new Bentley! I have reached out to Ford UK who were equally forthcoming. I’ve also tried independent parts suppliers here in the US, I’m based in California again to no avail. To give them credit, their exposure to Ford Escorts, Fiesta, Mondeo etc is rather limited.

Counter to popular belief, RR/Bentley are part bin scavengers from other manufacturers, so in all likely hood this bushing was from a European Ford car from 1990 or so onwards. These Arnages were built from 1998 to 2000/01 onwards before they went back to the old 1960’s 6.75 liter engines.

The dimensions of the bushing are as follows:

D shaped

34mm tall

32mm wide

18 mm diameter of the hole

 

Many thanks in advance for any pointers you may have. All the best for 2026, to all of you and your cars,

Markus

Have you tried looking at aftermarket bush suppliers like Powerflex etc and seeing if they do an option to the same dimensions?

From that bush the part number could be 85GB-5484-AB tho Google doesn’t seem to flag that up with a quick look

Morning Troy,

thanks for the link, sadly the diameter is 22 mm vs the 18mm for my bushing.

Yep, been in touch with a bushings specialist here, sadly their best advise was buy all the 18 mm diameter bushings we have and hopefully one will fit. All they have is the diameter size, not width or height.

Was trying to avoid going down that road but maybe that is the way to go. Who would have thought this is this complicated……

thanks again and be well.

18mm, sounds to me like a rear ARB, and with those narrow shoulders I think that supports that thought!  "85" - is that the year the part was introduced ?  1985 saw the introduction of the 4WD Sierras so... ?

It might be useful to measure the "OD" ie saddle width, although your bush supplier does not have any of those dimensions.

Good Luck

https://www.powerflex.co.uk/product-details/Rear+Anti-Roll+Bar+Mounting+Bush+18mm/559.html

Send them the details of your bush they might help

Although the part no does not match....

85GB is likely the model code of the vehicle family the part was released for, can carry over to other model lines sometimes. They prefixed with years until that rolled over after 2000 and they moved to 1M etc then letters. 5484 seems common to both front and rear ARB bushes. 
 

Google suggests Ford Scorpio, found other varieties of part but different letters at the end of the part number. 

Greetings and many thanks. The bushing is 34mm tall inc the lip on either side. The center height is 30 mm. The lip is about 2 mm wide. So the flat part is 28mm making the total bushing 32mm wide.

As to the 85 GB, the 85 -again à Google suggestion- is à hardness grade, or at least that is what is used on bushings for skateboard axles. 85 being medium hardness. Not sure what the GB stands for aside from a guess that it is a bushing made for Ford in Great Britain or to be used for a car made in GB. The AB seems to be a designation for OEM Ford product.

Thanks so much for all your input, I had hoped this to be a much simpler quest along the lines of “oh yes, took one of these off à Cortina Ghia or an Escort LS back in the day and the parts number is x.”
The easiest route is to just order all the 18 mm diameter bushings I can find on Amazon -free returns- get the closest to the OEM cut it to size and move on.i don’t fancy getting the “Ford owners club bushing anorak award for 2026 twelve days into the new year!”.

Thanks again to all , very kind. 

The details on the bush are part of the generic Ford engineering part number structure. 

Their part numbers are made up of:

prefix-base-suffix

Prefix being the lead model and model year that the part was introduced from. This is is where the 85 comes from - 85 model year, they’ll have carried that format on to 2000 then changed to 1xxx (2001) 2xxx etc then Axxx etc from 2010. The xxx letters are usually tied to the model family and Ford’s own codes for them
 

Base number is then common to all variants of that part, e.g all wheels are 1K003, fuel caps 9030 etc

The suffix details are usually 2 letters sometimes 3. First letter(s) are the engineering variant of the part i.e petrol, diesel, LHD, RHD, trim levels and so on. Last letter is the engineering level. So first released part starts with A then as engineering changes happen goes to B, C and so on. 
 

So the ‘educated’ guess with your bush was it showed the part number prefix and suffix but missed out the base number. With there being similar parts out there with EA suffix that suggests there would be other variants with earlier letters (A to D) but with the age we’re going back a lot of these may have disappeared or never found their way into google.

Greetings Troy,

many thanks for the additional insights. I shall now be able to bambotuzel my local parts store staff members when I next visit.

i went down the Amazon-sadly- route and ordered a whole bunch of bushing which were easily refundable and found a pair for a tenner which I was able to cut to size. Would have been nice to keep it all original but c’est la vie with older cars needs must.

All the very best and thanks to all who contributed, it is appreciated.

Keep enjoying tinkering and driving the cars.

M