Thread: LCAs, refurb all bushes?

I wondered about this when I replaced my LCAs a few months ago and found that the front bushes and ball joints seemed quite serviceable. But I reckon I'll replace them all as it seems silly not to and the bushes and ball joints aren't too expensive.
I, too, have access to a press but was wondering about the best way to get the pressing out bits without having to buy the complete tool(s) as they seem to be designed for pressing the bushes out and in in situ with the arms on the car.
Would you consider making up a few sets of dies and sell them on here?

My Indy does the bushes with out removing the arms , puts in Genuine bushes all up 2 hours .

Originally Posted by crawal

My Indy does the bushes with out removing the arms , puts in Genuine bushes all up 2 hours .

I assume they would only replace the failed bush, not all of them, hence my question above...

Originally Posted by cjc_td5

My first set if LCAs did 98,000km at which point I replaced them with a new complete set of arms. I'm now up over 170,000km so the bushes may not have too long left in them. I was thinking of replacing the bushes in the old set of arms I have here, ready to go in when required.

Now to my knowledge it usually only the rear lower bush that fails. These arms were replaced due to a rear bush failure on one side. Is it worth replacing the front bush and ball joint? Do these other joints have accepted longer lives?

I have a 20T press and lathe to make up dies to press out the bushes, so that side of it is no real issue.

Maybe I'm just being a cheapskate and should just HTFU?
Cheers,

I would do them all.

Ive been changing over bushes on my spare set of arms - Im doing the full set of bushes on the old arms as I have no idea how long they where on before I got the D3. Once you've got a spare set of arms theres not much extra cost to do the full set of bushes in the arms

Do both or Mr Murphy will make the front bushes go not long after.