I am planning to replace the bushings in the rear and am stuck on the LCA bushings. I'm not really looking to put any delrin bushings as this is my daily and don't ever put it on the track. Is this the correct rear lower control arm to subframe bushing? Its the ACDELCO 45G11057 Professional: https://www.rockauto.com/en/moreinfo.php?pk=356291&cc=1140567&jsn=14101
I see it says Inner, which I do not know what it means. It appears rockauto doesn't sell a MOOG one either.
So I finally got in there and disassembled the rear suspension. Looks like the UCA-to-frame bushings and toe compensators are completely shot, as well as some of the knuckle bushings. Ill be replacing all the knuckle bushings with the poly ones I ordered and will need to order toe compensators as I didn't expect those to be totally done.
The LCA-to-frame bushings (all 4) still seem to be good and firm, although slightly worn after 25 years. Is it worth replacing those? I mistakenly ordered 4 of those forward bushings tho, so I'd need to order 2 rearwards.
How in the world did yall replace your LCA rearward and forward bushings?!
There's pretty much no way to get a receiver cup on the flange side which causes the C-clamp press to angle and not seat correctly! These bushings are a pain in the @$$. I saw two methods by other people:
1. Pressing out the rubber then cutting the outer shell in with like a sawzall
2. Grinding down the flange enough to either break it off to get the receiver cup to fit on then press out
There's got to be a better method, no? I rented the whole large bushing press kit from Advance. One way I found that might work is using only one of the receiver cups that seats like 90% flush and running a threaded bolt through the bushing fitted with some washers on the end and try to press it out that way.
Since I'm going Delrin, I need to leave the cups in there; so I used the old torch-it-out method.
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