You can buy new control arms with bushings already installed for not that
expensive.
Heres a link to the part on Potterman(virtual world)
http://www.parts4vws.com/catalog/product_detail.asp?PartNumber=191407151B
From: <[email protected]>
To: "Les Noriel" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [a2-16v-list] Suspension Bushings
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 14:31:05 -0500
I've got away with using a vice to do the job.
You have to toy with it a little more when you use the vice but it did save
me from going out and getting a shop to do it.
If you're interested in a stiffer setup you may want to consider inserting
the disk style bushings 90deg from stock position (meaning the kidney
shaped holes are facing front-back). This is a little trick done by VW
motorsports.
It will firm up the front a bit but not as much as poly bushings.
Mark Reda.
>
> From: "Les Noriel" <[email protected]>
> Date: 2004/02/09 Mon AM 10:41:07 EST
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: [a2-16v-list] Suspension Bushings
>
> I am refreshing the entire suspension system on my Golf. As part of that
> process, I ordered suspension bushing for the front a-arms which I
received
> from Virtual World. I don't particularly like the polyurethane bushings
> because they are too noisy for my taste. So I ordered OEM replacements
but
> need to press out the old ones and put in the new.
>
> The last time I did this, the machine shop that pressed them in charged
me
> $70 for labor for the pair. Since I am also refreshing my Corrado in
> parallel, that would be $140 for labor for two pair of a-arms! Bushings
are
> inexpensive but the labor is outrageous.
>
> So I was browsing thru the Harbor Freight website and saw a hydraulic
press
> for $59.
> Having this tool would make it possible to press in my own bushings. It
> would also be beneficial when installing rear bearing races when
replacing
> rear discs.
>
> Anyone done this before using their own press? Where do you get the
proper
> arbors?
>
> -Les
>
> See the tool at:
> http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=2457
>
>
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