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From: videokid400 on 15 Apr 2007 23:12
On Mar 28, 2:29 am, marvins...(a)yahoo.com wrote:
> On Mar 24, 8:00 am, Murray <mur...(a)work.com> wrote:
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> > On 23 Mar 2007 13:26:05 -0700, "Daniel" <nospampls2...(a)yahoo.com>
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> > >Murray wrote:
> > > Found the bushings on line for $50 +- a set, is it worth paying
> > >> for a Tech to do it or just do it my self?
> > >> Anyone else here done the job.
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> > >Would be interested to hear how this goes.
> > >Had always heard the bushings are not replaceable but you need to
> > >change the control arm.
> > >I imagine you would need a press of some kind, but when I changed the
> > >control arms on the Gen. 3, I was glad I didn't have to press in any
> > >bushings. Did not look like a simple job. Plus my supposedly 600 ft.
> > >lbs. air gun would not budge those control arm mounting bolts. The
> > >threaded ends were inside the frame tubing where penetrating oil could
> > >not reach.
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> > I was hoping someone here had experience with the project, I have
> > found the bushings available so there must be a way to install them.
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> > Murray
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> I had a passenger side contol arm bushing fail in my '86 Camry in
> 1995. The busing is molded into the lower control arm which is mounted
> to the fram of the car with a bolt whose nut is hidden in an acess
> hole in the frame. The bolt was rusted solid to the steel bushing in
> the control arm and would not budge even with a professional air
> driven impact wrench. I gave to a shop that succeeded in getting the
> bolt free of the steel bushing in the rubber of the controll arm when
> being cut with a sawsall. The vibration of the sawsall managed to free
> the rusted bolt. For more info e-mail me at
> marvin.s...(a)yahoo.com(remove the dot after marvin).
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This is a very easy job in a fully equiped workshop with the press
tool required.
The press is one thing the tooling another.
Camry control arm jig when I bought mine was $670 Aus.
If you dont have acess to one , leave it to someone who does.
dave

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