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I just finished disassembling an extra complete suspension (removed from my parts car) in preperation for a total clean and rebuild. My plan is to have an entirely fresh suspention ready to bolt into my project car over this winter.
Todays task was repairing and gusseting a broken diff mount bracket on the subframe. Over the next few weeks I will be pressing out all the old bushings and sand blasting/painting all the larger components. Then I get to install all the urethane and Delrin bushings I've had stashed, in addition to some fresh AWR components.
While going through my check list of replacement parts though, I realized I'm missing a few bushings to complete the project.
They are the:

Rear lower arm pillow ball (part # FB01-26-230) and seal (part # FB01-26-250)
Lower arm bushing (part # FB01-26-220)


Where they go:

These make up 2 of the 3 mounting points between the rear control arms and the rear hubs (the 3rd mounting point is the DTSS bushings that are being replaced with Racing Beat eliminators).
The pillow ***** appear to be similar to heim joint bearings and I'm guessing these would only be available from the dealership. The lower arm bushings however are just rubber and would probably be prime candidates for urethane upgrades.



I did some hunting around and found no mention of these being available from the aftermarket sect. Do they exist?

To those who have completly overhauled their rear suspensions; Did you bother replacing these items? If so, did you use OEM Mazda parts?

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*EDIT*

I know these parts are available from Mazdatrix as OEM replacements only.

lov-2-rev

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I found that Mazdaspeed carries these bushings in delrin. Anyone know who sells MS suspention parts?

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Here are a few pics to aid my search. The first is of the disasembled rear. The second is a close up of the rear hub mouting points. I am looking for the upper bushing and the lower (left) pillow ball. The large bolt is where the DTSS attaches.

Can anyone please help?

Gene

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The DTSS bushing can be replaced with an aftermarket piece, but I'm not aware of an aftermarket replacement for the others. Why would you need an aftermarket one though? It's already and pillow ball and solid metal bushing in the two places, you're not going to be getting anything better than that.

mdq-fc3s

there is a japanese tuner that makes bushings for that but I think it's metal (hemi-joint) the tuner name is "super now" you can check rhdjapan.com if you want to get the parts just email them, and the parts are not cheap.

lov-2-rev

iTrader: (87)

I have delrin DTSS bushings already. And you're right, the pillow ball is as solid as it gets. But the upper bushing is rubber and now becomes the weak link........get what I am saying? I'd rather use a poly bushing instead of an OEM if I could.

I will check with RHDJapan and see what they have available.

Thanks!