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Fri, 05 April 2013 06:25

skip2

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After 1250 miles of white knuckle driving and praying for every pedestrian and bicycle I passed on the way to and from Dothan I am going to put on new lower control arm bushings, can see that the ones on it now are squished to one side. I remember someone posting about using a floor jack to support the lower arm popping with hammer to get it free from the ball joint verses using the pickle fork. Best I can tell the ball joint is not original, has bolts not rivets, and is ok. Just trying not to damage it or the seal. Any suggestions or comments.
Thanks
Skip Hartline

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Re: [GMCnet] control arm bushings [message #203693 is a reply to message #203688]

Fri, 05 April 2013 07:22

Mr ERFisher

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consider this
http://gmcmotorhome.info/front.html

may be cheaper
gene

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Skip Hartline <skiphartline@aol.com> wrote:

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>
> After 1250 miles of white knuckle driving and praying for every pedestrian
> and bicycle I passed on the way to and from Dothan I am going to put on new
> lower control arm bushings, can see that the ones on it now are squished to
> one side. I remember someone posting about using a floor jack to support
> the lower arm popping with hammer to get it free from the ball joint verses
> using the pickle fork. Best I can tell the ball joint is not original, has
> bolts not rivets, and is ok. Just trying not to damage it or the seal. Any
> suggestions or comments.
> Thanks
> Skip Hartline
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Re: control arm bushings [message #203694 is a reply to message #203688]

Fri, 05 April 2013 07:34

JohnL455

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Or use a screw type separator tool?

John Lebetski
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