So far, I've done the trailing arms and the rear differential bushings. The other writeups will follow and be added in seperate additions.

Part 1: Trailing Arms
Part 2: Rear Differential Bushings

 

bah...you did the easy ones....now try getting fancy on the silly shaped upper control arms and the front lower controls arms....boy were they fun....

 

actually, I've read that the large bushings in the front lower control arm aren't recommended as they make the parts very difficult to re-install and have a minimal impact on performance at all.

I doubt I'll have problems, but thanks for warning me.

 

Since the polyurathane doesn't twist like the stock bonded rubber bushings you actually don't have to worry about torquing everything down with the suspension compressed anymore. Make sure that you grease the inside of the poly bushings and the ES metal sleeve, the faces of the bushings, and the subframe area that they rotate on. That will avoid future removal for squeeks, I lubed the crap out of the bushings on the eclipse and it was still noise free after three years.

Oh and DO NOT get that ES tar sap like lubricant on you or your clothes, it doesn't like to come off

Good writeup!

 

ahhh man thanks! I just got my kit. I went completely polygraphite on my 67 Camaro and it is a dramatic improvement. I think this mod is under-rated. It should help at atuox.

 

Awesome.. good info. Have you noticed much difference?

 

I just got done doing the trailing arms and diff brackets. My one note is that for installing the ES one piece trailing arm bushings I found it much easier to start off in my vice. When I did them in the press (after filing more chamfer into the arm) the assembly would lean to one side and pop out. I used a piece of wood under the arm in the vice to make it so that the arm couldn't pop to the side and they went in with ease.

If you have it, an air chisel with a hammer attachment makes short order of popping out the balljoints. It took one second on the knuckle on each side for the ball joint to pop out. Even easier than using a sledge.

 

Good info Nick. I remember you from the DSM days, BTW.

A few weeks ago I got around to installing the front sway bar bushings and to my surprise, with the right tools, I was able to remove the sway bar brackets and reinstall with the ES bushing inserted without disassembling any other suspension components. I even left the sway bar endlinks connected to the control arms. I was surprised that with just an offset angle ratcheting wrench I was able to accomplish this, as it looks extremely difficult initially.

 

Any updates on this?

 

Unfortunately, no updates. I took a job which put me out of the country for an extended amount of time (Sep06 to present) and haven't been able to work on the car. Even worse, I can't drive it.

 

Would something like this work on the front swaybar bushing bracket? Any length/size considerations for the wrench?

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002SR058/...8&linkCode=asn

Thanks!

 

Yep, looks like it would do the job just fine.

 

Cool! Looking to get those bushings in pronto!