View attachment 1360468 View attachment 1360469 View attachment 1360470 View attachment 1360471 View attachment 1360472 View attachment 1360473 View attachment 1360474 I tackled the inner and outer ARB bushes this Saturday despite the freezing cold weather. I’d already removed the bar and old bushes to replace with Strongflex bushes.
Other than the usual spanner’s and sockets, the only other tools I used was a 4” G Clamp, a small set of Molegrips and a small pointed chisel to align the holes.
I didn’t have access to a ramp so was doing the job on my drive using axle stands. I jacked all 4 corners of the car as high as I could using 50cm stands. For slightly easier access when attaching the inner bush nut (if that’s what you call it), I lowered the two rear subframe bolts by about an inch.
After threading the bar over and through the gearshift selector bar, I cable tied the drivers side end of the ARB so it wouldn’t fall down onto me.
I started on the passenger inner bush first removing any cables out of the way to allow easier access. After applying grease and fitting bushes, I attached the G Clamp over the centre hole of the ARB clamp and wound it all the way in. Then I took the Molegrips and clamped the outer edge of the ARB clamp to hold it into position.
Then I removed the G Clamp and then took my pointed chisel to line up the bolt holes. Once I got somewhere near I clamped the corner of the ARB clamp to fully secure into place, being careful as to not block the hole so the bolt won’t go through. The original bolt went in fine, so just a case of reattaching the nut. Lowering the subframe slightly helps you reach through the side of the subframe to attach the nut. Once the nut was attached to the bolt I just hand tightened it before moving onto the drivers side.
Once the inner bushes were done I moved onto the outer ones. I threaded a longer bolt through the ARB clamp which attaches to the lower arms. I did this because the old bolt was badly rusted. The outer bushes went on fine, although I did have to pull the ARB bar towards me a little to line up the bushes correctly on both sides (hence me not tightening inner bolts yet). Once both sides we’re done, I then proceeded to tighten the bolts, although I haven’t torqued these up yet as I’m in the process of upgrading the lower arm bushes and will wait until the car is on a proper ramp, under load, before torquing up.
And that’s it. Not as bad as I anticipated despite the bitter cold weather. The only drawback doing it on your drive with jacks is you end up with a sore neck the next morning.
. From your pic in your build thread it looked a bit like the inner diameter of the bush was too big and wouldn't compress enough round the bar......that was my thinking, in ignorance of course :smile:!
