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Re: Control Arm Bushing Urgent! Posted by vvack0matic [Email]  (#1443) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from vvack0matic) on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:29:26
In Reply to: Control Arm Bushing Urgent!, saturn, Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:40:07 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
comes wednesday i am doing this exact job, well......
ok so im having someone else do it
shopping at eeuroparts online sowed both bushings to look the same but im thinking they just used the same pic. for both because they carry a different part number between the two.
ordering them off eeuroparts, the upper control arm bushing is only 5.something.
i was planing on doing my passenger side but upon closer inspection i found the driver side upper control arms are trashed also.
replacing the bushings on passenger side or driver side dose not require the motor to be pulled.
for passenger-side.
get a floor jack, and jack up the front end, pull road wheel, compress spring, get the spare tire jack out of the rear of the car and raise the jack up right under the lower ball joint, raising just enough to carry the wait of the assembly.
unbolt one side of the control arm`s housing, (if the bolts become hard to unscrew there is still to much wait on the arm, adjust the spare tire jack up or down,
after the one side is freed the use of a crowbar is needed,
slide the crowbar between frame and upper control arm and push inward (toward motor) this will free the one side up about and inch of play,
(just a note, before taking the two upper control arm housing bolts off, make sure to unbolt the main bushing bolt,
this will enable the housing to slide off soon as the crowbar is pushed.
the shims under the housing needs to be attended to,
once the two housing bolts are unscrewed, and before the crowbar is used
the shims will be able to slide out as a hole with the use of a screw-driver and a little tappy,tappy
now then... shims are out main bushing bolt is out and two housing bolts are out,
ohh one more thing before the crowbar is used loosen the other side housing bolts, in fact i see no reason as to why that housing cant come off the same time as the other,
with the spare tire jack caring the wait it should be as clock work.
after all the bolts are taken out you will notice the housing dose not want to come off, this is because years and years of riding and mushing the bushing to the arm will make it put up a fight,
but in the end the housing slides off the arm.
twisting and pulling will achieve victory.
when the housing is off you will notice the control arm`s metal (the metal that sits with in the housing, has molded to a mushed reformed terrible looking, molded post, that almost looks as if the hole control arm should be replaced, and you know what...... it should be.
its up to you if you want to unbolt the two little bolts to the upper ball joint to pull the hole arm, but perhaps that might tend to be a chore.
but back to the subject.
this deformed molded post will make it hard for the housing with the new bushing to slide back on, but like everything else not impossible,
then install is the reverse of uninstallation.
now for the driver side.
this is the reason im having a Indy a have great trust in to do the job.
(i dont have the time or patients to do the work as followed)
the driver-side will be the same as the passenger control arm, as in setting up the jacks.
the only different is the radiator expansion tank will need to be drained and taken out, and..... the alternator will have to be taken out
this will give the room needed to work on the upper control arm.
just a note:
the extraction of the alternator was the Indy's idea.
i would have tried to loosen the alt, but not pull it (leave the pivot arm in) and i`m almost positive the housings could be pulled.
but..... if the work could not be done with the alternator in it will need to be pulled.
this gives me the prime tome to drop in a brand new alternator in...
like this one im holding, soon as the Indy pulls my old alt im swapping the belt wheel and handing him the new alt.
I had the privilege of pulling an alternator on a 900 and I vowed (never again)
and in needing to do the job right with the right parts i would highly suggest ordering the bushings from eeuroparts,
there is no misconception with the click of a button
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