Rear rebushing done.

[rhipsher]

Finished rebushing the rear yesterday. As I was pressing out the last bushing on the strut rod a huge bolt of lightening hit my house. My hand was on the press handle and I got shocked right through the handle. It was so loud it scared the sh#t outta me. My hair was standing striaght up. It was hilarious. Knocked out all my Comcast receivers in the house and my A/C but nothing else. All the car alarms in the neighborhood were going nuts.
Anyway here is a write up on the rear end rebushing. Again I don't know if it's the right or wrong way to do it! Just did what worked for me.
The first thing I did after getting the rear up on jack stands and taking the wheels off was take some of the spring tension off the wheel spindle with a sissor jack. Then loosen up the strut bolts.


Now that the tension is off the strut rod bolts you can remove the bolts. I only did one strut rod at a time and left the other one in. If you remove both then the wheel spindle will drop down and be to heavy to menuver when you install the strut rods. Leave one in for support. Also you want to put a jackstand under the side rail off the side your working on. You want the wheel to hang free without a jack holding it up.
Remove one strut rod and press the bushings out and clean it good. I used dish washing soap in the kitchen sink and a brillo pad.

As you can see my strut rod bushings were wasted badly.


Now simply install the bushings.


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[phrogs]

Do you have a hole in your ROOF??

[rhipsher]

No hole. I've played with plenty of M80's M1000's which will take your hand off. But this was rediculous. Usually you see a big white flash before you hear that big crack/boom. But not when it comes down right over your head. Johnny I could hear the rain soaked drivway sizzling after it hit. It was quit awesome. in California we didn't have thunderstorms or bugs but here in Texas its a common event in the summer.