Passenger Side Lower Control Arm With Torsion Bar to Make Bushing Tight Again
| 11/26/07 08:44 PM 11/26/07 08:44 PM | |
| Anonymous OP Unregistered | Today at work I tried removing one of my LCA bushing shells. I think I did more than harm than good. What I did was, I took an air hammer with a chip that my coworker made for removing bushings on the cars we work on. Merely the bushings it is unremarkably used for can be pushed right out from one side to the other, non like on our mopars. S o I used it to collapse the wall of the bushing inward, all around. Then I took a long, blunt chisel scrap and went through the torsion bar hole to hammer at the folded in portion. THis really pushed the sleeve out about 1/4 inch, but then broke the piece o f the shell I was hammering. So I tried to fold in some other portion to hammer against, and doing and so pushed the bushing dorsum in. In the prosess of trying this again and again I accidentally cutting a couplle shallow gouges into the bushing recieving expanse. So I just gave up so I could get my caput back on directly. Tomorrow I'm going to have my air saw to work and try to cut the vanquish in 2 places so it will collapse in on itself. This should work, I think. BUT just to analyze, the control arm will exist fine once I get the shell out if I only use a die grinder to clean up the burrs right? At that place's still plenty of area left to agree the bushing, information technology is just a few small gouges. 1 thing I noticed is how flimsy these arms are. When clamped lightly in a vice the portion where the torsion bar attaches no longer spins freely from the arm flexing. I assume that is normal and will not pose an issue. |
| 11/26/07 08:51 PM 11/26/07 08:51 PM | |
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master Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 4,285 Ohio | I clench the t-bar slice in the vice on the mill, and cut through 1 side of the shell. This hands splits the shell and they autumn out. Brewers Performance Inc. |
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Management Trainee Joined: January 2004 Posts: 27,347 Today? Who Knows? | Discover a washer the bore of the inside of the bushing sleeve, tack weld it to the sleeve & printing the sleeve out with a shaft from the backside... |
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| 11/26/07 eleven:32 PM 11/26/07 11:32 PM | |
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| Anonymous OP Unregistered | Thanks for the tips. I call back I can get information technology now. I don't have acess to a welder, merely I volition endeavor cut it and so it tin plummet on itself and loose it's grip. But, every bit long equally I smooth out the pigsty with a die grinder and the new bushing fits snug, it should be find right? |
| 11/26/07 11:42 PM 11/26/07 11:42 PM | |
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Management Trainee Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 27,347 Today? Who Knows? | It'll be fine, peradventure a little green Loctite |
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master Joined: January 2003 Posts: 4,323 NY NY | are you using rubber or poly bushings? if yous use the poly y'all can leave the sleaves in. 1966 Dart GT ...down to only 1 mopar for the first time in 15 years! |
| 11/27/07 12:13 AM 11/27/07 12:13 AM | |
| Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 27,347 Today? Who Knows? Direction Trainee | |
Direction Trainee Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 27,347 Today? Who Knows? | Quote: Yeah & then nothing controls fore & aft movement of the inner cease of the LCA...If y'all can push the bushing into the control arm with your bare hands & the shaft into the bushing the same way...Whats preventing the arm from moving nether braking loads? I tried a set once on a customers request...I changed them out again less then a month afterwards... |
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master Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 4,848 Memphis | So why did you supervene upon them... the strut rods command the braking loads and make the inner ends of the command arms want to push into the bushing and or k-fellow member. Not a trouble....I accept a gear up on my Challenger. Have care, |
| 11/27/07 12:34 AM 11/27/07 12:34 AM | |
| Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 27,347 Today? Who Knows? Management Trainee | |
Management Trainee Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 27,347 Today? Who Knows? | I glad y'all like them, I don't... When the customer tells me the car is interim funny it pulls intermitantly & I put the car upwards in the air to find one ofthe control artillery pushed rearward & halfway off the bushing...I showed him the problem & changed them out...He'southward been perfectly happy with the safe bushings always since.. Expect how little rubber Chrysler used in their lower bushings compared to GM...With a GM I see existent gains from poly bushings, with a Mopar I meet minamal gain & a design flaw... |
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master Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: two,962 Sac, CA | How can the lower control arm motion astern if it is held in place by the torsion bar? Am I missing something hither? |
| xi/27/07 12:39 AM 11/27/07 12:39 AM | |
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| Bearding OP Unregistered | I'yard replacing them considering I had been hunting down a handling problem for so long, and idea information technology might exist the poly LCA bushings taht I had. And then I decided to put rubber. But when I removed the arms I notived the Grand Fellow member was broken. In whatever example, I wasnt things as tight as possible, so I am going dorsum to condom. Last edited by UrbanRedneck4x4; xi/27/07 06:thirteen PM. |
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| Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 27,347 Today? Who Knows? Direction Trainee | |
Management Trainee Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 27,347 Today? Who Knows? | Quote: The torsion bar limits the amount the command arm can motion but it doesn't prevent it from moving fore & aft about three/iv"..It's designed duty was to concur the car upwardly non locate the LCA then they left a crenel in the arm that is deeper then admittedly needed, then the clip trapping the rear of the torsion bar isn't located in such a fashion as to preclude any motion, just keep the bar in the sockets at either end... |
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I Alive Here Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 14,600 Not2farfromNashville, TN | Quote: More please. "The but affair to do for triumph of evil is for good men to do zero" "NUNQUAM NON PARATUS!" |
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Senior Management Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 27,897 Irving, TX | If the trouble is the cavity, plug it before stabbing the bar. That would prevent the LCA from moving backwards. We are brothers and sisters doing time on the planet for better or worse. I'll take the ameliorate, if you don't mind. |
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The Camaro Kid Joined: January 2003 Posts: 6,570 Indiana | Even if you lot plugged the gap, the torsion bars weren't intended to have an centric load similar that. Heck, they themselves are only held in position with snap rings. I don't know exactly how much front to dorsum load in that location is on the LCA'southward, but I adopt the press fit of the rubber bushing and steel sleve over the sloppy, drop in poly bushing. |
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enthusiast Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 369 Lubbock, TX | You lot might look up the "Dutra disk" as 1 idea for retaining the poly LCA bushings. |
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| Joined: January 2004 Posts: 27,347 Today? Who Knows? Management Trainee | |
Management Trainee Joined: January 2004 Posts: 27,347 Today? Who Knows? | FWIW The mill slice locates the arm perfectly without spacers, plugs or a "Dutra deejay" the big improvement poly bushing provide for a Chevy are exercise to the huge amount of rubber Chevy used to mountain their control arms..A picture of Chevy bushings is attached.... |
| eleven/28/07 07:05 AM eleven/28/07 07:05 AM | |
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member Joined: May 2007 Posts: 106 Australia | I fire them out with the oxy torch,and printing in the new ones. |
| xi/28/07 xi:59 PM 11/28/07 11:59 PM | |
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| Anonymous OP Unregistered | Ok I got them out. For the one I hadn;t attempted yet, it came out real like shooting fish in a barrel. I fabricated a cut most of the fashion through the sleeve with my air saw, then used an air hammer to fold the bushing in on itself and it came right out. The other 1 took some fighting, just I got information technology out. I cleaned up the gouges with a die grinder/file. Information technology feels pretty polish now afterward, I recollect it'south ok. I asked the owher of the shop next door to mine if it looked ok, and he said I should put 2 "swedish dimples" in the bushing surface area by gently hitting a punch in the side to make a slight raised area to make sure the bushing does not spin, then use locltite. But then with the loctite the bushing is NEVER comming out. Does this sound like a good plan? The pins were fairly easy to get the sleeves off of. I was able to grind a pocket-sized indent in the sleeve, so air hammer confronting the indent and it popped right off of one of them. On the other ane, I couldn't make it budge then I cutting it lenthwwise with a cut off wheel, carve up information technology and knocked information technology off. Merely in the procedure I cut a hair tood eep and made a very shallow ut into the pin itself, maybe as deep as a fingernail. Everyone seems to think it won't be a problem. Audio right? Lastly, I loked and as best I can tell the artillery are straight. Just gotta push button the bushing in, then paint them. One call up I was wondering, do I button the bushing into the arm, then the pin into the bushing, or the other fashion effectually? To press the pin in practise I need a sleeve that volition fit over it to press on that shoulder at the bottom, or can I press on the end of the pin (by the threads)? |
| eleven/29/07 12:45 AM eleven/29/07 12:45 AM | |
| Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 27,347 Today? Who Knows? Management Trainee | |
Direction Trainee Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 27,347 Today? Who Knows? | I press the pivot into the bushing get-go by pressing on the threaded end of the shaft & with the bushing sitting flat on the press bed, the to press the bushing into the control arm I use a sleeve of the proper bore so it slides over the shaft & rides on the shouldered expanse of the bushing, that sits on the press bed so I position the control arm & press on the torsion bar socket area..Should all go together pretty easy.. |
| 11/29/07 02:29 PM 11/29/07 02:29 PM | |
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chief Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: six,515 Santa Cruz, California | You take to make sure you're non pressing the inner shell out of the outer shell while trying to press in the outer beat into the LCA. |
| 11/29/07 07:xiv PM 11/29/07 07:14 PM | |
| Anonymous OP Unregistered | |
| Anonymous OP Unregistered | I pressed the lowers in today. I put some loctite just to be condom, just information technology took between 4 and seven tons of pressure level, and so I remember they'll hold But, I screwed upwardly again... It'south like everything is going wrong on me. I had some trouble setting the uppers in the printing, I got ane bushing in each, but the second bushing got cocked in the printing and destroyed the bushing. So now I'chiliad out a set o $30 MOOG 7103s... And when it got cocked it bent the outer edge of the bushing recieving area slightly. Not plenty that I call back it will be a trouble though. I recall I can just wack it with a hammer to ready the slight curve (it is like egg shapoed on the very edge) then maybe put a dimple in the inside and printing the bushings in with loctite mayhap. I think that should hold, because in that location is even so plenty of paterial to printing into ahead of the curve. Whatcha call up? Will I exist ok? I tin can't believe I proceed screwing stuff up. I gotta stop rushing.. luckily a local parts store has them in stock. $v more than I paid at rockauto, but will be faster. |
| eleven/30/07 12:22 AM 11/thirty/07 12:22 AM | |
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| Anonymous OP Unregistered | Ok the bushings are all in and the arms are being painted I didn't make whatsoever dimples or utilise loctite on the new ones. I figured I'd effort information technology and meet how tight they are before doing anything else. I put them in with a hammer 9put a piece of pipe over information technology then I would just load the edge of the shell, and hammer away) and let me tell you, tehy are in there TIGHT. My arms feel like jello. I remember the slight egg shape fabricated them tighter. Simply affair now is those large washers (ferrels I think?) that need to exist pressed into the ends of the bushings, on one of them (an outer one) the errel doesn't stay in, it slips right in and can exist pulled out. I don't think this volition exist a problem though, equally those only transfer the load into the sleeve, and will be held in constant compression in one case the cam bolts are tightened anyhow, right? |
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Master of zip Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 16,619 Nearly Heaven | Quote: Don't use a press on the uppers - long commodities & nut, big socket, some washers, tighten the bolt to printing it in. Everybody makes fun of a hillbilly until they need something stock-still |
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| Anonymous OP Unregistered | It's a flake tardily now, just in that location are complete front end suspension tool kits avaialble from several Moparts sponsoring vendors, including myself. The right tools make any job easier with less run a risk of parts damage. Mopar Specialty Tools |
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main Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 6,840 The Swamp | If you desire to prevent the LCA bushing pin tube from breaking in the future, Now is the time to practice information technology. Weld a bead around each tube and grind it so the LCA pin sits flush with the tube. That's a very mutual problem on Mopar yard frames. Check the weld where it exits the from of the Chiliad, too. I've seen holes around the tube in the front where the assembly line weldor/idiot used also much heat and blew a pigsty in the K frame and never filled it. |
| 11/thirty/07 07:07 PM eleven/xxx/07 07:07 PM | |
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| Bearding OP Unregistered | I know not everyone has a welder but really the super easy mode to remove the lower control arm bushings is like one guy above said.Press out the shaft,pry out the safety with a screwdriver and prepare a similar diameter washer in the hole about a 1/four" down and weld it in.At present all y'all have to do it bulldoze it out with a hammer and a punch.I have seen so many control artillery butchered by idiots with chizels and sawzalls etc. |
| 12/02/07 01:19 AM 12/02/07 01:19 AM | |
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| Anonymous OP Unregistered | ANyone have an answer to my question as to wether it's ok that the washer on ane of the upper bushings isn't tight? And then again since I take a bunch of spare ones from the prepare of bushings I screwed up, I guess I could try to get one to fit tighter. |
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master Joined: January 2003 Posts: 4,386 The Pale Blue Dot | A couple of years agone I talked with Dick Ross @ House Experience about poly LCA bushings. He didn't think there was much benefit, because the bushings are thin so at that place is little room for deflection. |
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master Joined: November 2003 Posts: 3,577 Long Island, NY USA | Quote: I take to strongly disagree with this statement. I change bushings with the afformentioned tool kit without a press in a very short time on the bench. I feel that if in that location is any place in the pause that can utilise a hard durometer bushing, its the LCA. This signal gets hammered in no time with rubber bushings. Even though the bushing is thin, in that location is enough deflection to change the camber. I am pretty anal when information technology comes to alignments, considering information technology can make or break a good suspension setup. I feel that putting rubber bushings dorsum in is a complete waste of time and effort. |
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super stock Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 756 Toronto, Ont, Canada | I used poly urethane LCA bushings in ii cars and on 2 cars, the right side urethane bushing had broken and looked every bit if information technology was screwing itself out. |
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Besides Many Posts Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 26,956 So Cal | Quote: The poly bushing can take the urban street use. I collection my Barracuda and then my Sprint both with poly lowers 40 miles each manner through Los Angeles to Thousand Oaks every day for iv years. Over and back on the most traffic'd highway stretch in the globe; 405 fwy Sepulveda Pass. My Dart is a convertible. I wouldn't put polys in on a street cruiser vert by my choice. I bought it that way. It'south vert, heck the [i[whole car flexes even if I did accept frame connectors. I did them on my Cuda past my option because it's setup for aggressive treatment. I think poly flexes too. My biggest beef with the lower polys is the installation. I had to practice a LOT of fine tuning and fitment to brand them fit right. They wouldn't get in at all at showtime. I ended upwardly grinding, polishing, filing, shaving and/or sanding every contact surface. Side by side step with a lower would exist to bypass the poly and go straight to spherical high load bearing in there. Concluding edited by autoxcuda; 10/26/08 04:12 PM. |
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mopar Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 576 Northward Carolina, USA | Adept topic for me since I just replaced the bushings in my GTX with a kit from Free energy Suspension. The uppers are definitely no brainers but I wonder what the large deal is virtually the lowers. I pressed the shafts out of the one-time rubber bushings and into the new polys with pretty much equal effort. There'southward a bulge on the inner sleeve which I effigy helps concord LCA in place. 1 the shafts fully seated in the new polys it looks like it would accept a lot of forcefulness to pull them out. I wouldn't spit for the deviation in the rubber or polys at this point. I'd take to concord with the fella that said a solid bearing mountain would have to exist the ultimate. |
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Likewise Many Posts Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 26,956 So Cal | Quote: I was just skipping that pace. No i I know of makes a spherical LCA setup. This is about what the lower bushing looks like on the circle track motorcar I work on. Nosotros take a facing scrap to make the inner sleeve precise so that the bushings don't hang upward at all in the chassis. Terminal edited by autoxcuda; 10/27/08 02:15 AM. |
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Too Many Posts Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 26,956 And then Cal | Quote: I call up the deviation in installation difficulty is the variation in the old outer and inner shells that are left from the safety bushings. There tin can be a variation in thickness per different LCA bushing replacement manufactures. As well, when they are pressed in/on they can buckle a lilliputian causing a diameter variation. Earlier Energy Intermission got large, Guldstrand Applied science (Vette/GM suspension specialists) sold just the poly inserts made to thier durometer specs. But they told me when energy came along and included the shells they just sold the Energy stuff. They explained the issues I re-told above with the erstwhile bushing shells and were tired of the fitment headaches that would popular up. I had to carefully die grind the outer shells and then sandpaper scrool them smooth. I fifty-fifty tried to vitrify them a petty. I besides used a real fine safety impregnated grinding wheel to grind the inner pivot sleeve so ran it on a buffer. Also advisedly ground only a piffling off the outside of the poly bushing. My theory was if the begetting surfaces were smooth they might not squeak. I've ran about 25K miles on that setup and never relubed them. Doesn't squeak. Note: the pin in the middle of this picture found on some A-bodies cannot exist used with poly bushings Terminal edited by autoxcuda; x/27/08 02:fifty AM. |
Source: https://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/48245/all/these-blasted-lower-control-arm-bushings.html
what he said. If you don't have a welder or don't want to buy the tool for removing the outer beat - Brand a cut down the inside of the bushing most through the outer vanquish, and then "skin" the bushing toward the inside with a small chisel or drift pin.
Overnice precise movement with with petty friction. Smoooooth.
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