help w trailing arm bushings
 

Pressed in my trailing arm bushings and this is as far as I can go. Used a 20 tom press and this is all. Any ideas or comments?http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1447295433.jpg

I Believe that is how they are supposed to look. When I did mine, it was a very tight squeeze to get them in position but tapping with a rubber mallet got them in place.

Here's mine:
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Do you see the small gap between the steel part of the bushing and the arm? That's the issue. Not going in all the way.

The left side sits flush but the right side has a 1mm gap.

I got a threaded rod at home depot, stick it thru the bushing.
Load on a bunch of washers on each side.
Tightened a nut on each side until the bushing popped in. No prob at all. Hope it works for you

Started with that then went to a 20 ton press. Unfortunately that's all I got.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1447335868.jpg

here is a close up of what i am taking about

could the bushing be bottomed out against the other side?
 

If you haven't installed the other bushing, measure the bushing installed width and the trailing arm width.
Maybe that is as good as it gets and the 1 mm is "normal".

chris

OEM bushings or crap third-party items? Clean all swarf etc out of mating area within arm? If you use a grease to help it in be sure it is silicone-based.

Oem

Can't. Pull these out anymore. Unless I saw them off.

I presume the OP has long solved his issue. I just had the exact same problem, so wanted to offer my resolution here for all that stumble to this post:

In my view, the first bushing is always simple to press in, it's always the second one that can be hard. Why? If you press in the second whilst "clamping/resting" the arm on the first bushing, the 1st & 2nd rubber will compress, push the inner metal sleeves further inside, touching/blocking the second one to fully seat. Hard to put in words, hence I've made a awful drawing.

Essentially, when installing the second, you need to have it resting on the aluminium (blue bottom arrows in drawing) and not on the installed first bushing, so you don't compress the rubber. Second photo showing how i supported the arm with the parking brake and a metal whilst using a press.*
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