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#20468 02/10/2003 6:48 PM | Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 5 Member | | Member Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 5 | Hopefully someone out there can help me. I am rebuilding a '68 1/2 ton 2WD Suburban. I have the front end all apart in preperation for drop spindles and front disks. While I am at it, I am replacing all the wear items. I am completely stumped by the control arm bushings though. On dissassembly, I can not figure out what is the actual bushing. The end nut seems to have a shoulder that fits inside the bushing area of the control arm. Is this shoulder the actual bushing? It seems to be one piece with the end nut. How do you determine if it's worn and how do you replace it?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Paul
P.S. I guess I'm an honorary stove bolter, my boat has a '72 250 L6 driving an OMC leg. 2 barrel carb to boot! | | |
#20469 02/11/2003 12:05 AM | Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 1,586 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 1,586 | Welcome to Stovebolt, you can check out but you can't ever leave. Those bushings screw into the control arms.You'll need a long handle breaker bar, 3/4 drive helps.When screwing them back in you have thread in one bushing, them screw in the control arm shaft, the screw in the other bushing taking care to make sure the shaft screws the same amount each way.Those bushings usually never see a grease gun , most are worn, just replace them ,upper and lower and the control arm shafts. .Pay a little extra to buy quality USA made parts,not the no name parts in the white boxes. Oh, I think Moog sells an offset upper shaft to deal with alignment problems that may occur when lowering the front end. | | |
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