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Alright....here it is. Its a bit crude for those of us who work on the floor in our garages, but it worked fine. (I can hear Anders cringing now!)
I changed one side at a time. First side took me about 2 hours, second about 1hour 15 min.
Jack the car on the first side. I always use at least one extra jackstand for safety. Remove the rear control arm...3 bolts...one at the rear bushing, one at the anti-roll bar (on 1994 and first 1/2 of 1995's only--on later cars it hooks to the front control arm)..and one where the two control arms meet.
The trickiest part:
Push the bolt up thru on the connection between the two control arms. Its a bit difficult as it hits the CV boot, but I pushed upwards with a punch and pryed it a little while rotating the wheel to find a "notch" in the CV joint which would allow me to get this bolt up and out.
The rear bushing has a two-part tin sleeve in it which holds it in its place...the bolt goes thru it. Once you have the bolt out, pull the bottom half of the sleeve down and out with some needle nose.
Remove the rear control arm...this takes a little playing around with a pry bar as the anti-roll bar puts some torque on it.
Place the control arm in a vice. Cut the rubber out of the rear bushing. I got one of those Roto-Zips for xmas and this worked well. You all are probably smart enough to figure out anyother way to cut this out. Pull the other 1/2 of the tin sleeve out of the bolt hole in the bushing.
You are left with the sleeve from the bushing pressed into the control arm. Disassemble/reassemble your hacksaw so the blade is inside the sleeve. Carefully cut just enough to get thru the old bushing sleeve. Pry it out with a screwdriver.
Fit the new bushing into place...pay attention to the "dot" on the control arm and line the "arrow" on the bushing up with it. I began pressing the bushing into the new arm using my vice, but my vice is not too large and it ran out of power for this about 1/2 way in. I finished by pounding it in with a hammer with the arm across a couple of 2x4's. If you have a large vice, you should be able to press it all in with your vice. OR if you have access to a hydraulic press, this would be ideal.
Reinstall the control arm. Place the top tin sleeve in the bolt hole on the new bushing. Put it on the car...this takes some jimmy-ing with the pry bar to get the anti-roll bar in place. Insert the bottom tin sleeve once the holes line up on the rear bushing.
Again, its trickey, but you can get the top bolt back in where the two control arms meet by playing with the CV joint position and jiggling the bolt towards the back of the car.
Blue locktite on the threads. 55-65 ft lbs on the two large bolts and 18 ft lbs on the anti-roll bar.
Repeat on the other side.
Hope this helps,
Nick
95 900s
93 900s
...Saabs since '86
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