[Jandrews]

Jerry,

I have been in this situation too, and it is extremely frustrating. I assume you are working with the new A-arms with the vulcanized-on rubber bushings? It took me me nearly two hours of wrestling with a C-clamp under extreme pressure, but I finally got it in. I did use a silicone grease coating the bushing. This was the only way to get it in there, as there would be no way dry. I am a believer that you should not dremel the inside of the cross-member, regardless of how tempting it may be. I also considered elongating the front holes as Chuck described, but I just couldn't get comfortable with that approach. I just toughed it out and kept working with the C-clamp until it finally went in. For me, it seemed there was some sort of invisible "bulge" right at that 1" mark that prevented it from going any further. Once I got the C-clamp method to force through that invisible "bulge", everything seemed to fit nice and snug, and not even overly tight.

Anyway, my very adamant advice would be to tough it out with the C-clamp until it goes.


JA