New Rear Control Arm Bushings

Smyrna, Georgia

June, 1996

 

The front suspension got all new ball-joints & bushings back in '91 when the disk-brake swap took place, but the rear suspension, after 31 hard years on the road, was pretty loose; the rear of the car would wander around in an increasingly frightening way in high winds.  So, I drove on up to Cobb County (Newt Gingrich's district) to my friend Andrew's house.  Andrew had several important things for this project:  An air-conditioned garage, a hydraulic press, and impact tools.  Plus, he'd done rear control arm bushings before and I didn't know the first thing about what to do beyond "take off the huge bolts that hold the rear suspension together."