Need quick help! - How to remove trailing arm bushings?

[Axxe]

Realistically, urethane will out last your car.

[fporro]

Realistically, urethane will out last your car.

unless is overtighten as on rear shock mounts, please don't ask how i know.

[kowalski]

Rubber goes in easily as well - just stick the bushings in the freezer overnight, then heat the subframe up with a torch, hit it with PB Blaster or white lithium, then slide them in.

I replaced all the bushings in the rear with just a puller and some plumbing stuff (end caps). Worked well, and didn't take a long time to do.

I considered urethane bushings, but I have heard (somewhere, sometime...) that they don't age gracefully. IOW, when they go, they go, and there is no gradual worsening of the handling.

I have no evidence to back this up, but I figured the originals lasted 180K+ miles, so they can't have been horrible. Cheaper, too.


FWIW.

the urethane i didn't have to freez, or use lube to get them in. they just pushed in with my hand. and i'm driving her today! and what a pleasure it is, new brakes, new rotors, stainless braided lines, ate super blue fluid. new trailing arm bushings (urethane), sub frame mounts, sway bar bushings, sway bar links. IE shock mounts. SSK, and the cherry on top is a nice new OEM shift knob.

[royalflush313]

haha Mike, now that I think about it, we did install a whole shit loads of stuff in your car. No wonder it took so long.
We know what we are doing now though, so we should be able to cut the time in half :o

[kowalski]

haha Mike, now that I think about it, we did install a whole shit loads of stuff in your car. No wonder it took so long.
We know what we are doing now though, so we should be able to cut the time in half :o

yes, yes we did. we knew what we were doing before;) but now we know how to deal with the siezed bushings... and more efficient ways to do it.

[Sean]

this is what the tool looks like, can be replicated with a piece of pipe, a treaded shaft and nut.
second pic it's tool in action ...

almost identical to what I did! Works great! :D (I did the pipe and bolt...)

[fporro]

cool

she"s got another run, last weekend we were able to swap out bushings without removing half shafts nor brake lines ;)