Control Arm Bushing install..How to, as I do it... lol

[Cavalier2000]

Money well spent trust me.

[Lances133]

Could spend $180 more and get new bushings with new arms from New England! based SMG Motoring lol http://www.smgmotoring.com/products/1

[Classicrocjunkie]

Well here are some pics fellas..



I cut the hell out of the big bushing to get it out...smaller one i had to give in and take it somewhere to get pressed out.

This is what the control arms look like with everything pushed out and ready to rock n roll..



Well after i took the control arms to get pushed out, i got bored and painted my caliper reds, It looks like corvette red in real life, the colors is messed up in my camera or something..



Here is the final product, new lower ball joints which have to be drilled out, just work your way up from smaller to larger.. eventually the rivot will give way, then you'll need to resize the hole in the control arm a little bigger since the new bolts are a tad larger.




Anyone spot the press... Ha ha.. that thing worked wonders, pressed the new bushings in litterly in under a minute per side..


I'm going to paint the arms before i reinstall them, so yea this project was a pain in the ass..

[Cavalier2000]

I thought you were painting the arms?

[Lances133]

I'm going to paint the arms before i reinstall them, so yea this project was a pain in the ass..

[Cavalier2000]

yea thats what i thought as well just though he would of painted them before putting in the new bushings.

[Classicrocjunkie]

Where the old ones came out of, they look still like brand new, So i am just painting the arms where they are exposed.