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Re: Rears are difficult and $$$ to adjust properly (archive)
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Posted by Marc on January 01, 2001 at 17:15:57:

In Reply to: Rears are difficult and $$$ to adjust properly?? posted by Pete on January 01, 2001 at 11:05:07:

I just finished doing the rears this week. Removal of the trailing arms is very straight forward. For me the hardest part of the job was finding a machine shop to remove the old bushings. I'm not sure exactly why but after 4 shops I found one that told me that I might try to burn the rubber off and then use a chesiel to remove the outer metal casing. After 2+hours I gave up and took it back to the shop where 2 hours and $60 later I had no more bushings. Installation of the bushings is a snap, in fact I was a little concearned at the easy at which the bushings went into the mounts, considering the task of removing the originals but after thinking about it I realized that the bushings must rotate easily within the mount or else the whole point in them being adjustable is lost. I have yet to test the new bushings although I can see the difference in the tire(less negative camber). Here is a site which gives good advice on adjustments for the rear.
If any questions feel free to write.

Marc


Anyone have any details/thoughts on this? Got a set that I'm going to be putting on in the spring...

Pete


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