Hi there, I'm looking for some advice or ideas on what I'm gonna do here...
I bought a complete bushing kit for my car, i did the rear last winter, currently working on the front, particularly the lower right cont arm. The kit didnt come with the outer shells or inner sleeves. my existing outers are fine. my inners are screwed as i had to air chisel both the head and nut off, meaning the bolt shaft is still in the sleeve. no way its comin out. I found a place to get new bolts but getting new inner sleeves to put in my bushings is a mystery. Any thoughts? I seen a cheap set of bushings (16$) on ebay...was thinking take that inner sleeve out and put in my bushings. Anyone ever do that?

Also my right upper control arm support is rotten out up top and need a new one. My upper control arm is fine, I'm talking about the bracket. Both parts stores today didnt have a listing. Hard to believe their a GM thing.

Thanks a lot.

93z auto

 

yes you can take the sleeves out of new bushings and use em. found sleeves for truck but not camaro. unpper control arm support is not sold that i can find. it shows are part of the upper control arm assembly so cant find part number. wrecking yard would be a good place to start.

 

If it's part of the control arm assembly, as Craby stated, try looking up a 521-990 on Advance's website. Iirc, that's the part number for the upper control arm assembly for our cars but if I also remember right, they run about $350 and are a FDO item that takes up to a week to get.

 

k, gonna go ebay for both. thanks.

 

sorry for the late reply. ebay bushings didnt work. inside diameter of the sleeve was fine, outside diameter was way off to fit my new bushings. After going through all that I went straight to GM to buy new complete bushings...they wanted to sell me a complete control arm with the ball joint and bushings for a crazy price. the guy behind me in line was listening to me and said he had what i needed. sure enough went to his place and he had perfect sleeves with the end caps already cleaned up. good score.