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Old 01-26-2011, 11:57 PM   #1
fishingjred73
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73-87 A Arm bushing replacement

Hopefully this will be useful to someone. I forgot to take pics of the bushing removal but, I got them out basically the same way as I put them in. This is by no the means the only way or neccesarily the right way but, I used what I had and it worked for me.

The 1st picture just shows the shaft and the upper A-arm.
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Here you can see the bushing in place ready to be driven in up to the raised area.
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I then used a piece of 2" pipe to drive the bushing in
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Once you have one bushing in you have to slide the shaft all the way through the arm into the 1st bushing.
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Then I used a piece out of my ball joint press kit to support the arm with the shaft in it while I drove the last bushing in.
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If you have access to a press you could press both bushings in at the same time, just don't forget to have the shaft in place.
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