bushings!

[ManoNegra]

Originally Posted by MELLO*SOS

Next hurdle, to get the ES bushings in. It's damn near impossible to press the ES bushings in "normally". Take the metal pipes out of your bushings (3 per side) then cut the poly part in half, right through the middle (smallest) diameter. I used a superheated razor blade and vice grips to slice through them. If you're not a pyro then a jigsaw or sawsall or dremel would work nice too....

Now slip in one of the poly halves, just press on it with your finger until it gets cockeyed, then use a flatblade to straighten it out. It should drop it right in, so do the other side.... Get the metal pipe started, then use the C-Clamp to press it in fully. Make sure you have something solid on the other side otherwise you'll just press the other bushing half out.

First time I've ever heard of this method. With a press is cake - hardest part is getting the old bushings out, I scribed to the burn-bushing-cut-sleeves school of thought though which is a pita.
Would you mind chiming in with your impressions when you get the car on the road again?

Originally Posted by bo2o

dam makes me want to do this.

but i just want to change the uprights, and front and rear lower control arm bushings any recommendations?

This is covered in the thread.

this is for my s13. will the s14 master hyper flex set work?

ES makes a kit specifically for the S13 aswell.

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I hadn't bother to post anymore on this thread because it appeared to be dead but I guess I'll give a bit of an update.
I'm still having slop in the rear. The old front passanger subframe bushing is just trashed and neither metal collars or a combination of collars and pineapples haven't done the trick.
Thus, I got SPL solid bushings for the subframe and diff coming in and should be installing them soon weather permitting.