Need Subframe Bushing Help w/ Photos

[ReveC2.7]

In all of your knowledge base can someone please look at the images of my subframe bushings and tell me whats wrong here. There is about a 3/8'' gap between the top of the bushing and the washer as u can see in the photos. Is this gap supposed to be there ( picture of left upper) ? Does everything look correct ... These are new stock bushings but it seems the right bushing has failed ( cracked and separated from the inside of the subframe) after a few hundred miles, the bottom of the bushing sits on the subframe perch while the left bottom ( left bottom pictured) is only slightly less compressed on the lower perch and is also about to fail. Photos are of the top and bottom.
Somethings sketchy here in my mind anyway, but I'm always sketchy !


Thanks

michael

[jlevie]

My suspicion is that the inner sleeve of the bushing just isn't seated all the way into the body. Put a jack under that point and see if you can push it up. It also looks like the washer that goes between the bushing and car body is missing. Might it be below the bushing?

[mikewbd]

Pics of your old bushing? Did you make sure that part of it didn't snap off inside the frame?

[ReveC2.7]

I had the work done so I don't know, It seems from the images found in searches that the gap at the top is supposed to be there. The images I posted show the washer at the top and the narrower part of the bushing.
From what I have come up with there should also be a gap between the bottom of the bushing and the trailing arm when using stock bushings.
The right bushing is collapsed, the left not much better after a few hundred miles.

[KVF]

The subframe is sagging too low on the bushing. There are alignment & stop slots cast into the bushings & subframe. They assure that the bushing is pressed in straight and only goes a set distance into the subframe. It appears that your bushings were somehow pushed in past this point.

The washer/bushing orientation looks correct.

[KVF]

^ Actually, the metal plate on the bushing end serves as the stop, so that cant be the issue; sorry. Yet, somehow someone torqued the rubber center of the bushing upward.