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Can you change the title of this thread? This went waaaaay beyond tie rods and ball joints. Maybe change it to Front End Suspension Plus or Just Suspension Plus (cuz I'll be back on this thread before long asking questions about my leaf springs). I think we covered pretty much everything in the front except for the engine and steering column.
*waves hands* Doesn't matter, what's done is done now.
Been that way for about ... 140,000 or more miles by now.
I THINK closer to 200,000 miles, but I don't really remember WHEN I did the poly install, I just remember DOING the poly install, and look at the red bushings every time I open the hood
*waves hands* Doesn't matter, what's done is done now.
Been that way for about ... 140,000 or more miles by now.
I THINK closer to 200,000 miles, but I don't really remember WHEN I did the poly install, I just remember DOING the poly install, and look at the red bushings every time I open the hood
RwP
Odd. ES calls out the same bushing kit for both the 88 and the 93.
Damn you stack up the miles! I drive about 3,500 a year.
Well, now I know why my UCA pivot bolt slid out the shells and Ralph's didn't. The interior serrated half-washer on my first arm fell off so it fit thru the shell. Both washers on my second arm are intact and those washers will not fit thru the shells. I suspect those washers would fit thru if there were no shells. Otherwise, we're talking an impossibility to get that pivot bolt thru the UCA bushing holes that not even Houdini could figure out.
UCA BUSHING REMOVAL TIP (for the record and if you want to retain the shell in the arm for poly bushings): When removing the rubber and inner sleeve from the shells on UCAs you simply need a little patience and a hot torch. Remove the rubber lip off the outer portion of the bushing using a utility knife and/or sharp chisel. Fry around the outside around the inner sleeve to clean up the stray rubber around the inner sleeve to expose as much of the sleeve as you can...because you will eventually grab on to that inner sleeve to pull out the bushing. Then heat the hell out of the backside shell AND the outer shell until the rubber is burning and softened up. Once the bond is defeated, you can pull on that inner sleeve with a manly pliers to remove the bushing. I became an expert by the 4th try. Don't be a dummy and use gorilla methods like I started out with. As Ralph would say, let me be the dummy.
This is a fine time to ask this question after I already installed the ball joints a month+ ago. Anyway, these washers came with my ACDelco upper ball joints. I never put them on because 1) I semi forgot, and, 2) not sure where they're supposed to go. My Proforged lowers did not come with washers. Where do these washers go? Between the boot and the knuckle? Or were they meant as an optional spacer in the event the castle nut cleared the cotter pin hole in the stud? Gotta ask now because I get a second chance.
