the rear control arm bushings for the front lower control arm are very easy to remove and replace with tools no more exotic than air tools and a 6 inch jaw size bolted down vise and a piece of plastic plumbing pipe slightly larger than the outside diameter of the narrow end of the bushing to be pressed.

1. remove the entire lower arm
2. using an impact gun...air or battery powered (a good one) remove the nut holding the bushing to the arm
3. one of 3 things will now happen.
a. the bushing and cap will not come off having rusted itself to the arms threaded stud
b. the bushing and cap comes off in its entirety.......you're blessed
c. the bushing and cap appears to come off but the steel inner bushing sleeve remains seized rusted to the threaded stud.

4. if A happens you will have to burn out the rubber using an acetylene torch leaving the steel inner sleeve rusted to the stud. once the rubber is off you will see the inner sleeve is actually a flat piece of steel that has been rolled round. there will be a seam along its entire length. get an air or electric cut off tool and 90 degrees either side of the seam slice a new groove through the sleeve without cutting into the stud. then use and air chisel and peel back this section of the sleeve. it will peel back and then allow you to get the rest of it off without drama. this method with air tools take less than 5 minutes start to finish.

if B happens place grease on the outer surface of the new bushing and hand set it in the cap and tap it till it sets slightly tight into the cap. place the plastic 3" pipe end on the receiving end of the cap and the whole thing in the vise using the vise jaw to tighten the larger bushing end into the cap. as you tighten the vise use small hammer and tap the cap housing continuosly. this help the greased bushing slide into the cap faster and easier. this takes 5 minutes per side

if C happens see above ....without the acetylene part

this is an easy job IF you have air tools and a decent vise. a press imo is overkill.


the only decent HF presses worth buying are the A frame presses.....12 or 20 ton. they are designed to be far more precise.