Front suspension Refresh - What bushings to use?

[trackjunkie21]

Replace your Rear Shock Mounts ASAP. You really don't want to be driving around with them fubar'd for too long, I recommend Meyle HD e46 RSM's.

[Holland]

If you do shock mounts, don't forget to add E90 drop hats. They are like 10 bucks a piece and a nice little mod.

[Roysneon]

Or hit the curb directly with it. While you're in there it wouldn't be a bad idea to take the lollipops off, get two new control arms, new M3 bushings, have the bushings pressed into the lollis, the CA's into the bushings and then install it all yourself. A side impact that would ruin your upper strut mounts would tear the strut tower and destroy the strut tube so I'm pretty sure it's fine.

[5Toes]

Its the front wheel, so rear of the car is fine... nothing happened to it.

The strut mount for the passenger side is twisted, because the strut itself bent back into the back of the fender.

Im going out in an hour or so to take pics and get the car in the air.

So yeah it wouldn't be hard for me to do the drop hats, thanks for the idea. That is a direct fit in the front, yeah?

[slowe34]

If you do need a lolli I just finished my suspension upgrade today and went with the treehouse eyeballs. So I have 2 perfectly good stock ones if you need em?

[5Toes]

^ lol Ill take them. How much?

[slowe34]

^ lol Ill take them. How much?

Free if you don't mind them still on the old control arms. You'll just have to do the work to get them apart.

[5Toes]

Hmm nah I might as just use my own then

[Robert]

I did looks before maintenance, i did my suspension & rims before i did my timing belt , it came out fine ;) It's like gambling tho , you never know if it hit or miss .

[b*saint]

My 2 cents - I had the treehouse racing cabs and I hated them for street use. If Bremerton is like Spokane, you don't want treehouse racing bushings. The M3 cabs and lollipops have been fantastic.

[5Toes]

Yeah thats what I am going with

[5Toes]

Here are pics of the damage

Here we go everybody. I got out there in the rain, got the car on stands and pulled the wheel.



Here you can see where the fender buckled





Wheel took quite the hit...



Only damage to the tire, it still holds air fine. I am thinking it is reusable



Fucked fender...





Tie rod and control arm bent bad



Ball joint is bent



After looking at the frame rail it looks okay... but I dint look at it the greatest. Will re examine next time before disassembly



Here you can see how bent the tie rod is



Frame rail



The control arm stood up well surprisingly



Tie rod end joint I guess???



It looks like my spindle is toast too, it appears to be bent. So it looks like I need a new strut tube spindle assembly.

Additionally, I dont know if my sway bar is ok. I know the vert bar is a good OEM replacement, what is the price on one of those?

[Northern]

The frame rail will be fine, right where the lollipop joins there is a shit-ton of reinforcement.

[Sagaris]

Wow! is that a stress fracture on the portion of the control arm holding the ball joint in place?

Why does your oil pan look so different than mine?

If you ditch your bottlecaps I will take your center caps, they are much purdier than mine.

oh and I haven't read too much of your thread, but if you need tie rods then I have a set which have new outer tie rods on them that I could sell to you for real cheap, but im guessing that you have a lot of people locally there which have everything you need without having to pay shipping.

[5Toes]

Well Brian I am ordering from Blunt tomorrow, and 2 new tie rod assemblies from him are $113 so if you want to PM me and help me out Id appreciate it :)