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From: Murray on 22 Mar 2007 23:18
Purchase a used 86 Camry for my daughter, has only 107,000 miles on
it. The control arm bushings are definitely shot, I can watch them
slide back and forth by rocking the car. How big a job is it to change
these? 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.

Thanks, Murray
Have air tools, will rattle!
From: Daniel on 23 Mar 2007 16:21
Murray wrote:
> Purchase a used 86 Camry for my daughter, has only 107,000 miles on
> it. The control arm bushings are definitely shot, I can watch them
> slide back and forth by rocking the car. How big a job is it to change
> these? 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.
>
> Thanks, Murray
> Have air tools, will rattle!

From: Daniel on 23 Mar 2007 16:26
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.
==
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.

From: Murray on 24 Mar 2007 08:00
On 23 Mar 2007 13:26:05 -0700, "Daniel" <nospampls2002(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:

>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.
>==
>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.

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.

Murray
From: marvinshos on 27 Mar 2007 12:29
On Mar 24, 8:00 am, Murray <mur...(a)work.com> wrote:
> On 23 Mar 2007 13:26:05 -0700, "Daniel" <nospampls2...(a)yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> >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.
> >==
> >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.
>
> 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.
>
> Murray

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.shos(a)yahoo.com(remove the dot after marvin).

Marvin

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