Pattsy

iTrader: (1)

Has anyone installed the Prothane rear control arm bushings? Mine keep squishing out when i press the rod in. Basically, has anyone succesfully installed these and if so how did you do it?

Pat

ilike2eatricers

I believe there is a sticky thread in the suspension forum by jimlab about how to press in bushings correctly. Search for it.

Pattsy

iTrader: (1)

I know how to press bushings in. My question is whether someone else has had the same problems with Prothane bushings as i am.

Pattsy

iTrader: (1)

Hopefully the problem is solved.....Hard to tell that the arm has inner sleeves.

SureShot

I used a large "C" clamp & two steel plates to hold the bushings in place.
Then I lined the arm up with the mount & banged the arm from the clamped plates into the mount.

RX-Ben

My friend Owen had the same problem, so that makes 2. I didn't get them because of this.

sunshine

iTrader: (3)

the bushings dont fit unless you take the "cups" out of the control arm. The bushings replace thos cups that used to hold the OE rubber bshings.
-a

owen is fat

how do you remove the "cups"?
are you cutting metal?

sunshine

iTrader: (3)

no, I used a flathead scredriver. There is a ridge on the inside of the hole, as the two cups do not sit back to back on teh inside...so you can get a flatblade in that ridge between the two cups. Then just hammer it out a bit, working in a circular directon. Then hit the other one from the other side.
-a

SureShot

Here is a short video clip of using a Dremmel to remove the old bonded rubber flakes from the trailing arm socket.click here