rleey07

Anyone ever replace the upper bushings on an 8.8 at the top of the housing where the upper controls arm bolt to. I recently purchased a 86 8.8 and they need to be replaced pretty bad. I purchased new bushings and cant quite figuire out how to go about removing the bad ones. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

mjr46

you can drive them out with an air hammer if your careful, but they make a special tool for such, to reinstall you can use a piece of thread rod and try and get large diameter washers to pull them back in most of the way, but there is a spacial cup tool for such, latemodel restoration sells it

Boss_Hotrod

The tool is Made by maximum Motorsports.

http://www.maximummotorsports.com/st...roducts_id=190

AdderMk2

I was instructed to drill 3/8" holes through the old bushing material and then dent the shell in with a chisel or air hammer, then it should bang out pretty easily

aode08

If they are stock,

Perhaps a set of stronger aftermarket upper control arms ? Check the for sale section of the forum, the job is not fun on the car, id remove them.


A pic of mine are enclosed to show what your really dealing with

AdderMk2

they were referring to the ones in the axle housing

68CSTANG

I also used the "swiss cheese" drill method. Went alot easier than I expected.

rleey07

Thanks, I will try drilling and using an air hammer before spending thirty bucks on a tool I may never use again........

AdderMk2

I just did my uppers today... holy hell, what a bitch. Specifically since the axle was still in the car. I wish I har an air hammer today when I was working on it.

rleey07

Yeah I can imagine, mine is sitting in the floor of my garage, so hopefully it will not be too bad....