Suspension and Chassis Questions about your suspension? Need chassis advice?

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Old May 18, 2004 | 01:40 AM
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Ok if you were me would you....

Ok...

I have all the front suspension pieces. Springs, idler arm, ball joints, tie-rods...everything.

I have a ball joint press. Do you think I should replace my control arm bushings? How often do they go bad? I would rather do it but I do not know if I can afford the down time of running around trying to get them pressed in. Is it possible to do with a ball-joint press?

If my dads mustang GT wouldn't have blown up I wouldn't be having this problem....
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Old May 18, 2004 | 04:45 AM
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should be able to do them with a ball joint press. even if you have it done it shouldn't take all that much time.
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Old May 19, 2004 | 11:45 PM
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If you're replacing the rest of it why not do these too? Using a ball joint press will work but it's not easy. The easiest way is to burn them out with a torch and then beat the shells out of the arims, then press in the new ones.

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