yARIC008
Drives really slow
Okay, so a more general answer might just work on this. But basically I noticed my front sway bar bushings were just totally trashed and the sway bar could be pushed by hand up and down about a half inch.
So i pulled everything off, and the old bushings were just TOTALLY stuck to the metal somehow, so i burned them out and got it cleaned up a bit. The new bushings are poly or whatever, very very hard rubber. The bushing ends are also like 1.25-1.4 times larger than the hole that they go in. I tried pushing them in with a long threaded rod with bolts and washers on each side, but the bushing is so hard that it just would not push in at all. It would just go sideways and start to look like it was going to tear up.
So to make long story short i ground/sanded off one side of the bushings so it could be pushed in more easily, that worked fine and the way the sway bar pushes into them i figured they wouldn't be able to back out, but of course they did.
So my question is, how are you supposed to push these ******** in without taking all of the suspension off and using some sort of hydraulic ram to push them through the holes? Any secrets?
So i pulled everything off, and the old bushings were just TOTALLY stuck to the metal somehow, so i burned them out and got it cleaned up a bit. The new bushings are poly or whatever, very very hard rubber. The bushing ends are also like 1.25-1.4 times larger than the hole that they go in. I tried pushing them in with a long threaded rod with bolts and washers on each side, but the bushing is so hard that it just would not push in at all. It would just go sideways and start to look like it was going to tear up.
So to make long story short i ground/sanded off one side of the bushings so it could be pushed in more easily, that worked fine and the way the sway bar pushes into them i figured they wouldn't be able to back out, but of course they did.
So my question is, how are you supposed to push these ******** in without taking all of the suspension off and using some sort of hydraulic ram to push them through the holes? Any secrets?
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