First up was stripping off the metal rear heatshield and the rear lower brace bars.
Once this was done the plastic housing that fits against the sideskirt under the trailing arm bushes has to come off.
With that out of the way, we then loosened off the bolts holding the bush housing up to the chassis.
Quickly followed by un-clipping and detaching the cables and clips that hold the brake pipes in position!
With that done, we could pull the arm down and set to work using my new big black tool to remove the bushes.
With the bushes removed, using a medium grade of emery cloth, I cleaned off the aperture of which the bush sits in and cleared it of any corrosion or debris!
The original bushes that came out were actually in pretty damn good condition! Far better than I expected for a 70,000 mile car, however the amount of play before and after was an absolutely huge difference!
With the Powerflex bushes lubed up handsomely I then pressed the outer one home by hand (easy) then after realising the inner one was a bit harder, used a few components of the big black tool to make a temporary press!
Re-fitting everything back in position was relatively boring, so I didn't take any further pictures, however I have a video of the bush remover tool in action which I may pop up earlier depending whether it's any good or not!
We used tip-ex to mark the housings to try and get the alignment back as close to where it was as possible, but the car will be having a hunter laser alignment hopefully in the next couple of days, so that'll all be cleared up!
Really glad I went ahead and did these, despite not really needing them. - I'll report back with opinions once I've got the Hunter Laser alignment done!
makes such a difference having the alignment set up correctly.
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