21 years of salty winter roads in Canada and the northeast resulted in worn bushings in the rear. The rubber was amazingly in fairly good condition all things considered. It was actually the outer metal shell that had all but completely disintegrated. The photos are of the "good" one on the driver's side ... or what was left. Pressing out with the OEM tool was easy enough, except that on the passenger side enough of the shell actually remained to make pressing out impossible and burning out ineffective. The sawzall was required. I replaced them with Dave Samuel's polyurethane bushings which required pressing in new rubber bushings to and then burning out the rubber as you need good shells. It was a long dirty painful job, but Dave's poly bushings are awesome, the car rides way better, no more clunks, and it was very satisfying in the end.

That doesn't look bad at all. Must have a killer installing new ones only to then burn them out. Why did you not just burn out the new ones on the ground?

I thought about that but I don't think they would have pressed in properly as I believe the press tool needs to partially deploy against the inner tube. Plus it was actually easier to have the shells in place when cleaning out the rubber with the hole saw/wire wheel as per Dave's installation instructions. Either way it was a messy PITA but well worth it in the end. Car drives WAY better.

I think IPD sells shells
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