Originally Posted by chimchim
There's a million search results and I'm sifting through them.
Also... I have a few questions:
- do you clean out the rubber bushing from the metal sleeve because the urethane bushings don't have the sleeve?
- if I go with the mugen bushing, it should have the sleeve right? and if so, that means I shouldn't have to clean out the old rubber bushing... I need to get the whole busing and sleeve out.
- can i use a little bench press vise to do this?
I'm not quite sure what you mean by sleeve... I'm assuming you mean the center part that goes through the middle and sticks out either side. If so, the ES bushings don't have one, so you'll have to clean the rubber off it and re-use it with the new bushings. The prothane kit DOES have the cross-piece, so you don't need to worry about rescuing it. No idea about mugen, however.
If you mean the outer sleeve (i.e. metal sleeve that goes around the circumphrance of the whole bushing), then you don't need to do anything with it other than clean it off so you don't have rubber flecks crammed between the metal and the polyurethane. Its a tight squeeze to get the bushing on, so you want to clear off all the rubber.
As for installation, its acutally pretty darn easy if you get a BIG bolt (like 8 inches), matching nut, and two big washers (one has to be larger diameter than the bushing, the other one can be a little smaller), and press the bushing in by placing one washer over the empty hole in the control arm, running the bolt through the center of the bushing, putting the other washer on the other side of the bushing, and tightening the nut.