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Control arm tq S90-V90

Hey Dewfpo-hope things are going your way-I'll try to put this in sequence of how I worked this out. First of all make sure you have good jack stands and a good floor jack-dangerous enough with out getting careless. After setting the stand and hyd jack on one side (I worked one side at a time) with the wheel off start by taking the two bolts out of the large bushing area. One bolt goes thru the large bushing and another is nearby. then loosen the bolt that goes thru the small bushing on the control arm. Don't remove it yet-remove the keeper pin from the ball joint and the nut that holds it. Slap the control arm with a heavy blow to release the ball joint and then remove the small bushing bolt. I used a long crow bar and pried the metal plate away from the large bushing area enough to pull the control free from the car at this point.
Now with the control arm out I went to my work bench and took a 3 inch diameter peice of wood, long enough to hold on to and beat the large bushing out-it will only come one way. After doing that I applied some litheum grease to the inside of the contol arm(where the bushing fits) and aligned the bushing back to the marks that are on the bushing and control arm. It's important to make sure these marks are ligned up. I lightly tapped the bushing to get it seated back into the arm and then went around the outside area of the bushing lightly pressing it back in with my bench vise.One side of the vise is on the outside of the bushing and the other side is on the outside of the control arm housing. I only went about 1/8 of an inch at a time-slowly working and making sure everything was still straight.
This worked fine for me-I couldn't make the small bushing move though and had to resort to finding someone with a hyd press to finish the job. If you have to do both of the bushings-it's probally best to have them both pressed in with the press-I started with the large one that I thought was going to be the bear-it's not near as bad as the small one though. Back track everything to reinstall-after all is back together-tighten the small control arm bushing with the wheel back on and the car sitting with it's weight on the tire for final tourqing.
Hope that helps
Poolman






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New Control arm tq [S90-V90]
posted by  poolman  on Sun May 13 12:44 CST 2007 >


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