replacing front a-arm bushings
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Car: 86 Corvette, 89 IROC, 1999 TA
Engine: 350, 350, LS1
Transmission: 700r4, 700r4, T-56
Axle/Gears: 3.07, 373, 4.10
replacing front a-arm bushings
I want to replace my front control arm bushings with poly bushings, could someone give me a quick overview of whats involved?
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Car: 91 Z28
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Just do a search on the suspension/chassis/brakes board for it. It's been covered in depth many times.
Try this link, it seemed to have the most info after doing a quick search.
https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sho...rm+and+bushing
Try this link, it seemed to have the most info after doing a quick search.
https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sho...rm+and+bushing
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From: Fort Mill, SC, USA
Car: '88 Iroc, '91 RS, and a '70 RS
Engine: 5.7 TPI; 5.0 TBI; ZZ4/T56 on the ag
Transmission: A4, A4, slated to be a T56
I did mine a few months ago, and burning the old bushings out worked the best for me. I just couldn't get them to press out. Then I destroyed the old bushing shells with a chisel and a BFH, and installed the new ES poly bushings with a ball joint press. Not too bad a job, but took a few hours. I paid a shop to do them last time and they charged me $100.
FYI..
Ed
FYI..
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alloy came up with a good way to do this when we did mine.
drill the rubber part out of the old bushing, then with a sawzall cut the center section out of the old shell, then use a punch/hammer/chissle, brute force
to get the remain bit out of the arm. worked like a charm for us.
drill the rubber part out of the old bushing, then with a sawzall cut the center section out of the old shell, then use a punch/hammer/chissle, brute force
to get the remain bit out of the arm. worked like a charm for us. 
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From: winthrop harbor, il & plymouth, il
Car: 1986 camaro
Engine: 383 sbc
Transmission: th-400
Axle/Gears: 4th Gen 10 bolt/Detroit TrueTrac 4.
what i did was i used a cold chisel and wedged it between the lip of the bushing shell and the actually a-arm. i went around the perimeter beating the crap out of it for a few minutes and one the lip wsa raised and beat the hell i just pounded straight down on it. it came out l ike a champ.
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