Subframe bushings

[Ian Macoomb]

I've made a video of my subframe bushing installation. http://www.superford.org/registry/index.php?vID=1743&profile=1

Hope that helps.

 

[OzzmanNT]

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I swear I didn't hear enough "Eh" at the end of your sentences. Pretty sweet vid, is the car back together now?

 

[Ian Macoomb]

OzzmanNT:
This episode of the shady tree machanic is brought to by v8sho.com

I swear I didn't hear enough "Eh" at the end of your sentences. Pretty sweet vid, is the car back together now?

The subframe bushings are in. Josh (SHOnut) dropped by and hand delivered the SHOnut Aluminum subframe bushings. I put them in the front of the subframe and left the rear ones as is (with the new upper half and the old lower half). Paul Nimz was talking about doing exactly that on the mailing list. I think it should work out good. The rear subframe bushings weren't the culprit. The fronts were really bad.

I still have to get the struts in. I didn't have a helper today too. I'll get that done tomorrow and get the car back on the road soon.

I've still got to do the rear strut bushings and then get the alignment done.

I'm impressed with the aluminum bushings. All four are the same which suprised me. The quality of the workmanship is superior to that of the SHO Shop pullies that I have. There's not much to them really. Just two solid pieces of aluminum. I'll post pics of those and pics of the Ford bushings soon.

The bushings themselves weren't hard. I guess it helped that I soaked the bolts in penetrating oil for the last week.

 

[SHOZ123]

Here's a pic of all the bushings. From left to right

Aluminum, Gen 3 rear, Gen 2 rear, Gen all front

 

[OzzmanNT]

I don't know about everyone else but Paul's image seems to work sometimes and sometimes not work so I'm gonna post the link to the picture, just in case.

http://pic3.picturetrail.com/VOL18/95176/1150644/13374519.jpg

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