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Old 02-28-2005, 03:31 PM
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124 rear subframe bushings...need advise.

While I was having new tires put on this morning, I had a chance to inspect things and noticed my right rear forward sub frame bushing was desintigrated and the remaining 3 bushings didn't look nearly as bad, but there was evidence that it may be time to replace all.

My question is, do I need to drop the entire sub frame in order to replace bushings?

Below is a photo that shows heavy rust. This area is the only area with rust and actually looks worse than it may be. I will address this issue further when I have the new bushings ready to install.

Comments and recommendations anyone?

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Old 02-28-2005, 04:09 PM
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Lots of discission has taken place on this issue. See the threads at the URL below:

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/search.php?searchid=221240
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Old 02-28-2005, 05:24 PM
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Lots of discission has taken place on this issue. See the threads at the URL below:

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/search.php?searchid=221240
Thank you for that lead.

I did try the search under "rear subframe bushings 124' but it did not pull up anything useful. Much of the time, the search dosen't retreive info relating! It's all in the words you use I guess!

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