Subframe stuck

[IronFreak]

Keep it off the bolts and you should be fine.

[FredK]

There's no harm in putting antiseize in the cups that hold the subframe bushings. It will make removal a lot easier down the road.

[Cletonius]

I have the antiseize stick, I'll probably paint the aluminium sleeve.

I'm using revshift 80a bushings and the ones I just removed were factory installed 200k+ miles ago. Hoping to never do this job again.

[mr2peak]

If you don't want to do it again, now is the time to install braided brake lines and camber/toe correction tabs. If you plan to drive it hard and/or make more than stock power I'd buy the AKG or similar reinforcement plates and do that now as well. Also the right time to do a diff swap.

Having done this job 5 times on different E30's it gets way easier with practice. That said, I'm waiting 'till I have all the parts collected this time.

[Cletonius]

If you don't want to do it again, now is the time to install braided brake lines and camber/toe correction tabs. If you plan to drive it hard and/or make more than stock power I'd buy the AKG or similar reinforcement plates and do that now as well. Also the right time to do a diff swap.

Having done this job 5 times on different E30's it gets way easier with practice. That said, I'm waiting 'till I have all the parts collected this time.

I bought a roll of the new hand bendable brake line and am already working on doing the hard lines. I have a braided kit from blunt as well.

For now I skipped the weld in tabs. I may pick up a second subframe assembly down the road and have it modified but we'll cross that bridge later...

For this job I bought 98% of everything needed up front. I got the full kit from GC, all bushings, ebrake cables, and a bunch of other maintenance bits. Seals, etc.

So far I've only had to buy bolts and a diff cover gasket that I didn't plan for. I have a 3.73 LSD already so I'm gonna stick with that for now.

I also took the opportunity to clean and paint everything while it was out too.

[wakeboardr42393]

I can't see any harm in putting anti-seize on the new bushing. Although, I don't think it's necessary; if those bushings are original, they have been against the body for over 20 years. It's going to be a loonng time before it becomes a problem. and In the next 20 years, the car will probably be better taken care of than the first 20 years. I wil probably put some on when I put my subframe back on, just in case the car is still around 20 years down the road and someone else decides to do it. I like to put that stuff on anything that gives me a problem. :)

I'm in a similar situation with my parking brake cable ends stuck in my trailing arms. I think I'm going to have to drill them out to get the new cables in. I'll be putting anti-seize on the new ones (it's an automatic, it needs a parking brake lol)

[Cletonius]

I had that same problem with my brake cables too, everything was rusted together. I torched them and sprayed penetrating oil. Rinse and repeat. Try to twist the thing after the area around is heated