' 86 Camry, control arm bushing's. Easy DIY job?

Murray wrote: Found the bushings on line for $50 +- a set, is it worth paying

== Would be interested to hear how this goes. Had always heard the bushings are not replaceable but you need to change the control arm. I imagine you would need a press of some kind, but when I changed the control arms on the Gen. 3, I was glad I didn't have to press in any bushings. Did not look like a simple job. Plus my supposedly 600 ft. lbs. air gun would not budge those control arm mounting bolts. The threaded ends were inside the frame tubing where penetrating oil could not reach.

I was hoping someone here had experience with the project, I have found the bushings available so there must be a way to install them.

Murray

I had a passenger side contol arm bushing fail in my '86 Camry in

1995. The busing is molded into the lower control arm which is mounted to the fram of the car with a bolt whose nut is hidden in an acess hole in the frame. The bolt was rusted solid to the steel bushing in the control arm and would not budge even with a professional air driven impact wrench. I gave to a shop that succeeded in getting the bolt free of the steel bushing in the rubber of the controll arm when being cut with a sawsall. The vibration of the sawsall managed to free the rusted bolt. For more info e-mail me at snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com(remove the dot after marvin).

Marvin

This is a very easy job in a fully equiped workshop with the press tool required. The press is one thing the tooling another. Camry control arm jig when I bought mine was $670 Aus. If you dont have acess to one , leave it to someone who does. dave