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Has anyone changed a arm and other bushing, I am thinking of changing to prothane bushing. They also sell a tool I suspect you use with a hydronic press. Just wondering what the difficulty level is to change them out. Tia.
If you have a press, it is just time consuming, or you can use a good, large vice to remove the old bushings. The time consuming part is removing the A-Arms and pressing out the old ones. When I did mine, a friend with a Z06 wanted to do his also, the first time we did it it took 6+ hours, the learning curve is quite steep, 5 cars afterwards we learned the different tasked that could be done separately and could do it in a tad over 3 hours. Making the jigs to press out the old bearings is where the time saving is. Neither of us had a vice big enough to press out the old bushings but I had a press, and the first one was a bears with two of us working on it.
Wow I took me 5 to do a entire clutch job get this it only took the next guy 4..25 hours to do that same job . 6 hours to change bushings if your doing all 4 maybe . Just changing the rear should be be a in and out process 2 hours tops.
This is literally 2 brake caliper bolts , 1 tie rod bold and 2 upper a arm bolts to gain all the access you need without taking off the arm completely.
Last edited by Speedy007; Jul 12, 2020 at 01:42 PM.
If I were going Poly I'd go Pfadt as they come with new dog bones which include design changes to retain the bushing, or new sleeves where required. They are more but in my opinion they are a better product.
I bought ENERGY SUSPENSION bushings. The do not come with any metal hardware. Yes, once the old rubber pieces are pressed out the rubber has to be removed from the metal inserts. I lit mine with my acetylene torch. Then a bench grinder with a wire wheel to clean the rubber remnants from the metal.
It was generally a pain for each step except removal and reinstalling the parts on the vehicle.
Pressing out the old rubber was a pain. Removing the rubber from the metal was a pain. Pressing the metal sleeves and new bushings back into the a-arms was a pain.
I was in my cousin's shop and had access to a 6-ft press and two bench vices with a 10-inch opening.
But I'm a patient guy and saved a bunch of money doing it myself.
A arm bushing change
