I'm needing to rebuild the front suspension on my 97. The bushings for the front LCAs are shot, resulting in lots of play in the arms. Looking to replace everything up front with poly bushings from PST (PST Suspension). Anyone use their products before?

Also, anyone got a line on where to get the bushing/ball joint tools listed in the service manual? Can't afford to pay anyone to do this for me right now, so it'll have to be a weekend project in the garage.

One more thing... what lube would you recommend for the poly bushings?

Thanks for the help!

 

I did the Energy Suspension poly front end bushing upgrade. No special tools needed, except a pickle fork to seperate the lower ball joint (top one will usually pop with a few taps) and a small propane torch to melt out the old bushings. I did not do ball joints, but thats just a matter of pressing out the old ones, and bolting in the new ones. If you don't want to get into the mess of melting out the bushings, just take the a-arms to a shop and letting them press out the old bushings and ball joints. The new bushings do not require a press to install.

ES includes little tubs of poly lube with the bushing kits. I wouldn't use anything other than that.