[1 Lucky Texan]

and your new poly bushings likely came with a coupla packets of grease to smear on them. so no zerk fittings involved.

 

[1 Lucky Texan]

wow - yeah I'd like to see how you re-work that inner one on the car.

I think most folks either buy a whole new arm, or take it out to use a press, or the hacksaw method to swap that bushing. Didn't know the sleeve was 3 -piece either.

 

[1 Lucky Texan]

Certainly not easy Getting the old bushing off wasn't bad (done without use of air tools, although if I had the choice I would be using air power). However I have a feeling that getting the new one back in is going to be a bit tougher (do to the design of the bushing and the clearance available).

I didnt want to remove the control arm because I am too cheap right now to pay for an alignment And the only reason I am even replacing these is because my mechanic refused to pass the car for safety inspection due to "cracked/worn control arm bushing causing play in control arm" Car drove fine, had a bit of vibration in the wheel and some slight wander at around 70-75 on the highway, but nothing major.

I THINK there may be a way to use a long bolt, stacks of washers (or big sockets, pieces of pipe, w'ever) to press in the new bushing - probably take a lot of force.

good luck

 

[1 Lucky Texan]

put the new ones in a freezer - might help a little.

 

[1 Lucky Texan]

oh - I guess I got confused. The freezer trick is to shrink a metal outer sleeve like on an OEM part.

I have no idea if it's needed on a poly part. Couldn't hurt it I don't guess - they'd be exposed to sub-freezing weather anyway.