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Thread: How in the world do you install rear sway bar bushings on the rear bannana arm?

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    How in the world do you install rear sway bar bushings on the rear bannana arm?

    Soo... who has a good article (or can explain or show Youtube video) of
    how to fit the new rubber bushings over the sway bar and and onto (over)
    the "ball" that is part of the bannana arm? This seems like an impossibility.

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    I used a crow bar. It had a flat surface and I could angle it in just right.
    And it had such a lever arm....that it took very little effort.

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    Heat the end a little with a hot air gun. Get an assistant to tap it on with a rubber hammer whilst sill warm.

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    My process so far has been this: Slip the new rubber onto (and over) the ball (after lightly greasing the new rubber
    bushing. It slipped over the ball fairly easy. Then next, attempted to put the metal drop down link, over the ball
    (which it will easily) but then it needs to slid over the rubber. And impossibility! ;o) PS: The other end of this "drop
    link" slid onto the end of the sway bar (which looks easy enough.. once I can accomplish this step 2 process). ;o)

    I'll try to post some photos in a bit, so you guys can see more clearing what I'm referring to.

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    I think you're going in the wrong order, you first press the bushing into the drop link, then that is pushed onto the ball. And the bushing is plastic, not rubber.
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    I used a long crow bar at a strategic pivot point. Leverage is your friend.
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    I watched my mechanic install the bushing onto the banana arm in about ten seconds...he used the world’s longest pair of channel-lock pliers.


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    I always grease the ball and then a swift smack with a dead blow. Giant channel-locks sound good too if not installing on a steel arm.

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    Bit like making love to a women..... there are different techniques.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stretch View Post
    bit like making love to a women..... There are different techniques.
    ""CLASSIC'''

    Definitely 'the' post of the year so far.

    Keep up the humour lad's

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