Gents,

Recently, I just rotated my tires and checked upper ball joints. While looking around I noticed a bushing between the lower control arm and what looks to be a flange off of the frame. The bushing is torn pretty bad - it doesn't seem like it is supposed to have grease in it, however. Both bushings(two) on the drivers and passenger side are torn. I looked online and in my haynes manual to identify these bushings, but I can't find any info(I'm not even sure what this bushing should be called). Can you guys help me out?


You can see that the bushing is attached to the flange(above) that comes off the frame. Below the bushing is the lower control arm. They bushing isn't in contact with the lower control arm now because the durango is jacked up.



Here is the picture of the bushing from the backside. You can see it is torn bad. It is torn the same way on both sides.

 

So I literally just found out they are bump stops and I feel like an idiot. I wish there was a way to close this thread.

 

I swapped those out recently, got mine from Rock Auto.