I bought the mugen ones but never got them installed. I think the cheapest way to go about it without a press would be to remove the trailing arms yourself, bring em to a shop with a press with the bushings, and have them press in/out the out/new bushings.

BTW, I have the mugens for a 96-00 civic that I never installed. Wanna buy em?

 

me and my friend use a torch and heated the metal around the bushing and with a large flathead screwdriver, pry it away from the metal, and then it pop right out with a hammer. the process took 45min for both sides, came out clean, then we use a wire brush on a drill to clean it up more, lube it up and press the es ones in by hand.

 

If you haven't started yet, you might want to throw the new ones in the freezer for a little bit before trying to press them in, it will help them go in easier.

 

I just did mine a few week ago. I replaced them with ES. The torch worked great. Although I had to use a box knife on some of it. I also used the wire brush drill trick. To get the bushing in I used a long bolt w/nuts and 2 pieces of metal 4" square. I drilled a hole through the middle and that was my press.

 

^ yeah thats what I did, I don't know how these people press them in by hand.

 

my friend and i literally pressed in the new es ones on his civic and mines by hand. we put the supplied white grease it came with, and with a even applied pressure, it went right in by hand.

 

Hopefully you didn't knock out the outer shell of the OEM one and that's why the ES ones went in by hand. I had to use some circular plumbing parts and bolts to push mine in.

I've read about using a hammer to knock the old ones out and new ones in. I will be attempting this method since I now have 5 cars to do. I'm currently using the ES ones on my current driver, but they're starting to wear and I would like to get back to the rubber ones. The other 4 are just ripped OEM ones.

 

I would definetly have a plan B if you live in buffalo. Once those things get a even a little rusty it takes every bit of 20 ton press to get them out.

they supposedly "re-designed" the honda trailing arm bushings. Im curious what exactly they changed, do yours look any different than the new ones?

 

I don't have the new ones yet, I finally got a part number to show up on hondaautomotiveparts.com. Appearently the redesigned bushings number doesn't show any results. I have to call the local dealer and see what they say.