I spent a few hours this evening replacing the rear bush on the upper torque control arm on my '96 Aero with a Superflex polyurethane bush. Dan, sorry to disappoint you, but I really tried hard to avoid cutting the old bush out then eventually reached for the hack-saw (I don't have a torch). I thought afterwards that I could perhaps have pressed the old bush out part of the way and that might have been enough to free it.

The nice thing about this job is that you can take the arm indoors to do it in comfort. The bad thing is that you can make quite a mess on the lounge carpet. Bear this in mind if you are married - I'm not.

I noticed that the old bush had cracked after replacing the lower engine mountings. I'm sure this was responsible for the jerkiness in low gears in traffic. This is gone now, and the gearchange is much smoother and more positive. Well worth the effort, I think. There is no noticeable increase in vibration, noise or harshness. I have a poly replacement for the front bush, but I don't think I'll bother fitting it. The existing front bush looks in good condition and I have heard reports that two poly bushes will cause vibration.

I will post the procedure I followed on my website in the next couple of days, but I think I will also recommend that people take the arm to a machine shop. After all, you can take a couple of spanners with you, take the arm off the car, have the bush replaced, refit the arm and drive home. My constraint is always that I only have one car and if I need some more tools or parts halfway through a job I'm knackered unless I can put the car back together.

I look forward to the results of Dan's experiments with new poly and new rubber bushes.

• Replaced torque arm rear bush with poly, BillJ, Fri, 27 Apr 2001 21:13:53 <-- Viewing This Message
  • Where did you get the poly? (n/m), QuasiMotor, Fri, 27 Apr 2001 22:30:43
    • Superflex in the UK, BillJ, Sat, 28 Apr 2001 04:08:30

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