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Bushings - need answer ASAP

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Are the top bushings the same as the bottom, and if so, how do I pop out the top bushing and put in the new one?
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I ask because the car is currently jacked up as we speak
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i think you can go to autozone and get some poly bushings for the bottom. take one off and take it in. as far as the one in the sway bar - it's prolly gonna be a dealership part and you'll prolly have a hell of a time getting a new one in there.
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The swaybar one is different.

Took me 2 minutes to pop it out, and 15 to get it back in :roll:
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sillyp wrote:i think you can go to autozone and get some poly bushings for the bottom. take one off and take it in. as far as the one in the sway bar - it's prolly gonna be a dealership part and you'll prolly have a hell of a time getting a new one in there.
I already got rubber bushing for the bottom from the dealership
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Is there supposed to be this much play in the swaybar bushing?

That's the way it looked before I touched it

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could you put a new pic in? can't see, would like it as reference for my bushing...
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I'll be putting all the pics I have of my car in general in my thread in the Pics & Multimedia forum. Im gonna try and photodocument pretty much everything (Personal interest, helping out other members here, insurance). They should be up in the next hour or two.


FYI: It took me over an hour to do the first set of bushings, and less than 10 minutes to do the second

Sup @ learning curves :P
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so you replaced them all? where did you end up getting the top one and was it tough to fit it in there?
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sillyp wrote:so you replaced them all? where did you end up getting the top one and was it tough to fit it in there?
I didnt do the swaybar bushing, Ill do that next weekend. Im getting them from the dealership ($2.50 each)

I did get it out, when I was trying to find out if they were the same type, and it was a TOTAL bitch to get it back in. I ended up using WD40, which I know is a bad idea around your brakes, but nothing else would work. I even tried clamps.
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Splinter wrote:I did get it out, when I was trying to find out if they were the same type, and it was a TOTAL bitch to get it back in. I ended up using WD40, which I know is a bad idea around your brakes, but nothing else would work. I even tried clamps.
I use WD40 on my lug bolts..works surprisingly well at keeping nuts from rusting to the lug.
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I just picked up the swaybar bushings from the dealer yesterday. They'll go in monday hopefully
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