**Replacing Control Arm Bushings: A Step-by-Step Guide**

Now that we have this hole that the control arm bushing fits into, we want to clean this hole out. We could use brake clean or some penetrating fluid whatever you want to use I'm gonna be using some brake clean just to get this cleaned if the inside here isn't smooth you could get some 600 grit sandpaper and just smooth it out but this is really smooth and good it's not rusty at all.

Now that this is nice and clean, we have two options. One we could press the bushing in or two we could clean this up even further with a wire wheel. I real quickly pop the other bushing out so now I'm going to show you me cleaning this up real quick and then we'll put the new bushings in.

I'm going to use a wire wheel on my grinder to clean this up make sure you use eye protection ear protection and some thick gloves for safety okay now these are nice and cleaned up now you could do what you want with them if you want to keep them like this and just put them in your truck you could do that if you want to spray-paint them you could do that too both of these bushings are the worn-out bushings but as an example I cleaned up the right bushing and we'll just pretend that it's a brand-new bushing.

I'm not gonna paint my control arm just so I could show you guys how to press in a new bushing after I film this I'll paint everything and when I get my new bushings I'll press those in. Let's see how to press in new bushings into the control arm. I have this other control arm for a reference you can see which way they have to go in this shoulder right here goes in on the outside just like that getting pressed in there the new bushings will be pressed in all the way so the metal shoulder touches the control arm.

Now when you're pressing a bushing, you don't want to press the middle. You want to press on the outside just like if you're pressing a ball joint. You don't want to press on the stud in the ball joint. You want to press on the outside of the ball joint so the outside here has this shoulder that's made of metal you want to press on that outside and you want to press it straight.

On the opposite side, where it's gonna get pushed in, you want something that cups it. So that there's no pressure anywhere on this. You want the pressure on the control arm. We're gonna have to find something that fits on the outside here but doesn't touch the middle. The adapter that we use to press the old bushing out is too small and presses on the rubber bushing and the inner metal piece which we don't want.

If we press on the inner rubber or metal pieces it'll force the rubber out of its case and damage the rubber so we need something just a little bit wider. What I found that works for this bushing is this 30 millimeter socket. You can see it fits right on the outside and doesn't touch anything. We're gonna use this 30 millimeter socket to press this in.

So, it's gonna look like this and then on the other side we could use a small cup like this. It doesn't touch the bushing at all. The bushing doesn't really have to move in very far. It's just moving in that little amount so this doesn't have to be deep. We're gonna have a press that's set up like this and there we go you can see this part of the press is going to be pushing it that way and it's gonna force it into this cup area.

This cup area is touching the control arm but it's not touching the bushing or any part of the metal or rubber of the bushing. So, you could see that shoulder right there knees get pressed in that way. I'm going to tighten it as you watch and good and you can see its seating right in there.

And now we'll loosen this up. That looks really good and there you go. That's the new bushing. That's the original bushing. So, this is just to show you guys how easy it is to press your home bushings so you don't have to buy a whole control arm. You could just take your old control arm out put new bushings in. You could clean up your old control arms.

I mean look how nice these look. You saw the before both of these look nice and clean now. And it'll look and function like a new control arm if this video is helpful remember to give it a thumbs up also if you're not subscribed or consider subscribing up on the screen or give me a couple of how-to videos you can click on the screen or you can find the links of those videos in description below.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys chrisfix here and today I'm going to show you how to replace control arm bushings you've seen videos where I've replaced the whole control arm and sometimes that's a good option but if the control arms really expensive a good alternative is replacing these cheap bushings and just sanding this up and spray painting it black and on these control arms there's no ball joint so you're just going to be replacing them so that you could get new bushings so learning how to press out the bushings which is really easy by the way is a good alternative it's pretty simple to replace bushings a bushings a protective liner that provides cushion between moving metal parts in this case it's a rubber bushing which provides more cushion but you could also get a polyurethane bushing which is a lot stiffer so I'm gonna teach you how to replace bushings really easily what I'm gonna be doing is I'm going to be using a ball joint press they also make bushing presses both presses will work and remember you could rent a ball joint press or a bushing press for free from your local auto parts store another good thing that you might want to have is some good penetrating fluid and a ratchet or a breaker bar just in case your bushings are really stuck in there and that's basically it so let's begin so we have a control arm bushing right here and the first step that I'm gonna do is I'm going to take a metal wire brush or some sandpaper whatever you have and just get all that metal out of here that's kind of loose because you don't want to press that into the control arm I'm gonna focus more on this side because we're gonna be pressing the bushing that way okay so with that cleaned up let me show you how we're gonna press this so hopefully this gives you a good idea of how the bushings actually compressed in here now you can see on this side the metal part around the bushing is actually flared out and you can see that it actually flares out past the hole in the control arm so we can't press on this side what we're gonna have to do is press on the other side and you can see here the bushing doesn't flare out past the hole so with our kit here obviously we're gonna have to take out this and take out this this is the actual press part so this the bread's in here so we'll fit our control arm in here and then push the bushing out we want to push the bushing on the metal here so this big metal piece that's right here we could push right on that and then on this side we don't want to touch the bushing we want a cup that goes around the complete metal piece so we want a cup that touches the surface of the control arm but doesn't touch the bushing so that it just surrounds it and to make this easier on ourselves you can see how this gets in the way of the control arm here so what we're gonna do we'll just have that on the outside it doesn't matter which direction this is in as long as you're pressing it in the correct direction so we're still going to be pressing this that way even though we just flipped it around so now we're gonna look up at our kit here and look back at our press we need to have a piece that presses up against here and fits in here so looking here I think this fits in good that fits in right there and it also fits right in on here so we have this piece set up right here now on this side we're gonna need a cup that fits around this whole end and could fit on here so if we're looking at the cups here you can see that this will fit around the whole bushing and it doesn't touch the bushing it only touches the control arm so that works but at the same time if we try to slide this over here it just goes right through so we need to have an adapter on here and you can see here our two adapters that'll make this work that'll fit right on there so I'll show you everything all set up so you already saw we have this adapter that goes in here we have this adapter that goes right on the stud here fits in I said I was using this one but I actually think would be better to use this because this fits right around this point here and it locks it in so it's nice and sturdy and this still fits around the whole bushing here as you can see this adapter only touches the control arm it doesn't touch the metal surrounding the bushing at all which is going to get pressed out so here's our setup put this on here we're gonna be pushing the bushing that way which is why we're not touching the bushing on the side and we're touching the bushing on this side and get our adapter in here and now we'll just tighten everything down so that's the setup it's very simple that piece is pushing directly on to the bushing it's pushing it through that way and it's gonna fall in this Cup so now we just need to crank away at this to make it easier to get out we're gonna use some penetrating fluid so right in there could even add some in here and if you really can't get this out then you could take this off and add it in there but I don't think I'm gonna have a problem getting this out this piece at the end here is a 7/8 and we could just use a regular ratchet it might need a longer breaker bar depending on how hard it is to get this out now is a really good time to have a work bench that holds the control arm down I'm gonna go use the floor it's starting to get too hard to turn with this so I'm gonna use a breaker bar the breaker bar is extra long so it'll give me a lot of leverage if you have an impact wrench this job will be super easy you just pop it on the end of there and ring right off okay and with that pop we got the bushing popped out so now we just have to loosen this by hand and you can see that is pressed out so this is what a bushing looks like as you can imagine these are relatively cheap especially compared to a whole control arm this is where we pressed out the bushing right in here now that we have this hole that the control arm bushing fits into we want to clean this hole out we could use brake clean or some penetrating fluid whatever you want to use I'm gonna be using some brake clean just to get this cleaned if the inside here isn't smooth you could get some 600 grit sandpaper and just smooth it out but this is really smooth and good it's not rusty at all now that this is nice and clean we have two options one we could press the bushing in or two we could clean this up even further with a wire wheel so I real quickly pop the other bushing out so now I'm going to show you me cleaning this up real quick and then we'll put the new bushings in I'm going to use a wire wheel on my grinder to clean this up make sure you use eye protection ear protection and some thick gloves for safety okay now these are nice and cleaned up now you could do what you want with them if you want to keep them like this and just put them in your truck you could do that if you want to spray-paint them you could do that too both of these bushings are the worn-out bushings but as an example I cleaned up the right bushing and we'll just pretend that it's a brand-new bushing I'm not gonna paint my control arm just so I could show you guys how to press in a new bushing after I film this I'll paint everything and when I get my new bushings I'll press those in now let's see how to press in new bushings into the control arm I have this other control arm for a reference you can see which way they have to go in this shoulder right here goes in on the outside just like that getting pressed in there the new bushings will be pressed in all the way so the metal shoulder touches the control arm now when you're pressing a bushing you don't want to press the middle you want to press on the outside just like if you're pressing a ball joint you don't want to press on the stud in the ball joint you want to press on the outside of the ball joint so the outside here has this shoulder that's made of metal you want to press on that outside and you want to press it straight and on the opposite side where it's gonna get pushed in you want something that cups it so that there's no pressure anywhere on this you want the pressure on the control arm so we're gonna have to find something that fits on the outside here but doesn't touch the middle the adapter that we use to press the old bushing out is too small and presses on the rubber bushing and the inner metal piece which we don't want if we press on the inner rubber or metal pieces it'll force the rubber out of its case and damage the rubber so we need something just a little bit wider what I found that works for this bushing is this 30 millimeter socket you can see it fits right on the outside and doesn't touch anything so we're gonna use this 30 millimeter socket to press this in so it's gonna look like this and then on the other side we could use a small cup like this it doesn't touch the bushing at all the bushing doesn't really have to move in very far it's just moving in that little amount so this doesn't have to be deep so we're gonna have a press that's set up like this and there we go you can see this part of the press is going to be pushing it that way and it's gonna force it into this cup area and this cup area is touching the control arm but it's not touching the bushing or any part of the metal or rubber of the bushing so you could see that shoulder right there knees get pressed in that way I'm going to tighten it as you watch good and you can see its seating right in there and now we'll loosen this up that looks really good and there you go that's the new bushing that's the original bushing so this is just to show you guys how easy it is to press your home bushings so you don't have to buy a whole control arm you could just take your old control arm out put new bushings in you could clean up your old control arms I mean look how nice these look you saw the before both of these look nice and clean now and it'll look and function like a new control arm if this video is helpful remember to give it a thumbs up also if you're not subscribed or consider subscribing up on the screen or give me a couple of how-to videos you can click on the screen or you can find the links of those videos in description below also in description below get me the links to the chrisfix Facebook and Twitter pages check it outhey guys chrisfix here and today I'm going to show you how to replace control arm bushings you've seen videos where I've replaced the whole control arm and sometimes that's a good option but if the control arms really expensive a good alternative is replacing these cheap bushings and just sanding this up and spray painting it black and on these control arms there's no ball joint so you're just going to be replacing them so that you could get new bushings so learning how to press out the bushings which is really easy by the way is a good alternative it's pretty simple to replace bushings a bushings a protective liner that provides cushion between moving metal parts in this case it's a rubber bushing which provides more cushion but you could also get a polyurethane bushing which is a lot stiffer so I'm gonna teach you how to replace bushings really easily what I'm gonna be doing is I'm going to be using a ball joint press they also make bushing presses both presses will work and remember you could rent a ball joint press or a bushing press for free from your local auto parts store another good thing that you might want to have is some good penetrating fluid and a ratchet or a breaker bar just in case your bushings are really stuck in there and that's basically it so let's begin so we have a control arm bushing right here and the first step that I'm gonna do is I'm going to take a metal wire brush or some sandpaper whatever you have and just get all that metal out of here that's kind of loose because you don't want to press that into the control arm I'm gonna focus more on this side because we're gonna be pressing the bushing that way okay so with that cleaned up let me show you how we're gonna press this so hopefully this gives you a good idea of how the bushings actually compressed in here now you can see on this side the metal part around the bushing is actually flared out and you can see that it actually flares out past the hole in the control arm so we can't press on this side what we're gonna have to do is press on the other side and you can see here the bushing doesn't flare out past the hole so with our kit here obviously we're gonna have to take out this and take out this this is the actual press part so this the bread's in here so we'll fit our control arm in here and then push the bushing out we want to push the bushing on the metal here so this big metal piece that's right here we could push right on that and then on this side we don't want to touch the bushing we want a cup that goes around the complete metal piece so we want a cup that touches the surface of the control arm but doesn't touch the bushing so that it just surrounds it and to make this easier on ourselves you can see how this gets in the way of the control arm here so what we're gonna do we'll just have that on the outside it doesn't matter which direction this is in as long as you're pressing it in the correct direction so we're still going to be pressing this that way even though we just flipped it around so now we're gonna look up at our kit here and look back at our press we need to have a piece that presses up against here and fits in here so looking here I think this fits in good that fits in right there and it also fits right in on here so we have this piece set up right here now on this side we're gonna need a cup that fits around this whole end and could fit on here so if we're looking at the cups here you can see that this will fit around the whole bushing and it doesn't touch the bushing it only touches the control arm so that works but at the same time if we try to slide this over here it just goes right through so we need to have an adapter on here and you can see here our two adapters that'll make this work that'll fit right on there so I'll show you everything all set up so you already saw we have this adapter that goes in here we have this adapter that goes right on the stud here fits in I said I was using this one but I actually think would be better to use this because this fits right around this point here and it locks it in so it's nice and sturdy and this still fits around the whole bushing here as you can see this adapter only touches the control arm it doesn't touch the metal surrounding the bushing at all which is going to get pressed out so here's our setup put this on here we're gonna be pushing the bushing that way which is why we're not touching the bushing on the side and we're touching the bushing on this side and get our adapter in here and now we'll just tighten everything down so that's the setup it's very simple that piece is pushing directly on to the bushing it's pushing it through that way and it's gonna fall in this Cup so now we just need to crank away at this to make it easier to get out we're gonna use some penetrating fluid so right in there could even add some in here and if you really can't get this out then you could take this off and add it in there but I don't think I'm gonna have a problem getting this out this piece at the end here is a 7/8 and we could just use a regular ratchet it might need a longer breaker bar depending on how hard it is to get this out now is a really good time to have a work bench that holds the control arm down I'm gonna go use the floor it's starting to get too hard to turn with this so I'm gonna use a breaker bar the breaker bar is extra long so it'll give me a lot of leverage if you have an impact wrench this job will be super easy you just pop it on the end of there and ring right off okay and with that pop we got the bushing popped out so now we just have to loosen this by hand and you can see that is pressed out so this is what a bushing looks like as you can imagine these are relatively cheap especially compared to a whole control arm this is where we pressed out the bushing right in here now that we have this hole that the control arm bushing fits into we want to clean this hole out we could use brake clean or some penetrating fluid whatever you want to use I'm gonna be using some brake clean just to get this cleaned if the inside here isn't smooth you could get some 600 grit sandpaper and just smooth it out but this is really smooth and good it's not rusty at all now that this is nice and clean we have two options one we could press the bushing in or two we could clean this up even further with a wire wheel so I real quickly pop the other bushing out so now I'm going to show you me cleaning this up real quick and then we'll put the new bushings in I'm going to use a wire wheel on my grinder to clean this up make sure you use eye protection ear protection and some thick gloves for safety okay now these are nice and cleaned up now you could do what you want with them if you want to keep them like this and just put them in your truck you could do that if you want to spray-paint them you could do that too both of these bushings are the worn-out bushings but as an example I cleaned up the right bushing and we'll just pretend that it's a brand-new bushing I'm not gonna paint my control arm just so I could show you guys how to press in a new bushing after I film this I'll paint everything and when I get my new bushings I'll press those in now let's see how to press in new bushings into the control arm I have this other control arm for a reference you can see which way they have to go in this shoulder right here goes in on the outside just like that getting pressed in there the new bushings will be pressed in all the way so the metal shoulder touches the control arm now when you're pressing a bushing you don't want to press the middle you want to press on the outside just like if you're pressing a ball joint you don't want to press on the stud in the ball joint you want to press on the outside of the ball joint so the outside here has this shoulder that's made of metal you want to press on that outside and you want to press it straight and on the opposite side where it's gonna get pushed in you want something that cups it so that there's no pressure anywhere on this you want the pressure on the control arm so we're gonna have to find something that fits on the outside here but doesn't touch the middle the adapter that we use to press the old bushing out is too small and presses on the rubber bushing and the inner metal piece which we don't want if we press on the inner rubber or metal pieces it'll force the rubber out of its case and damage the rubber so we need something just a little bit wider what I found that works for this bushing is this 30 millimeter socket you can see it fits right on the outside and doesn't touch anything so we're gonna use this 30 millimeter socket to press this in so it's gonna look like this and then on the other side we could use a small cup like this it doesn't touch the bushing at all the bushing doesn't really have to move in very far it's just moving in that little amount so this doesn't have to be deep so we're gonna have a press that's set up like this and there we go you can see this part of the press is going to be pushing it that way and it's gonna force it into this cup area and this cup area is touching the control arm but it's not touching the bushing or any part of the metal or rubber of the bushing so you could see that shoulder right there knees get pressed in that way I'm going to tighten it as you watch good and you can see its seating right in there and now we'll loosen this up that looks really good and there you go that's the new bushing that's the original bushing so this is just to show you guys how easy it is to press your home bushings so you don't have to buy a whole control arm you could just take your old control arm out put new bushings in you could clean up your old control arms I mean look how nice these look you saw the before both of these look nice and clean now and it'll look and function like a new control arm if this video is helpful remember to give it a thumbs up also if you're not subscribed or consider subscribing up on the screen or give me a couple of how-to videos you can click on the screen or you can find the links of those videos in description below also in description below get me the links to the chrisfix Facebook and Twitter pages check it out\n"