I upgraded the front upper control arm bushings along with Bilstien shocks. I have not done the lowers yet. I notice when driving surface streets a knocking sound that seems to be coming from the upper control arm area. I pulled the wheel off and used a jack to lift the assembly just to verify where the noise was coming from. I wonder if the machine shop over-torqed the two bolts when the pressed the bushings. Has anyone experienced this after replacing there bushings? Any ideas on what I can do?

 

I did the ES polys on both upper and lower a-arms, and there was no "pressing" involved, except for the oddball "vertical" lower a-arm bushing - it took a C-clamp to compress the 3 pieces together. But the uppers just slid right in, very well lubed with the white grease that ES includes in the little yellow tubs.

 

Fred,
Thanks for the reply. I just burned out the LCA vertical bushing(what a pain). Is ther a better way?

1) What are the steps to compress the three pieces together? I thought the (inner) metal sleeve was going to seperate in to two parts to make this easier.

2) Does the horizontal bushing need to be burned out as well?

Thanks

 

every since I redid my suspension I get a clicking sound with the suspension travel, once on compression and once when it releases, haven't been able to figure it out

 

Thanks nov194,
Did you do the upgrade yourself?