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Hey so I took the control arms out of my parts car on the weekend and yesterday I used the hydraulic press at work to remove them. I found it was quite a tricky job to get the shells of the old bushings out of the TTL's. The trailing links have no shells and the front LCA's didn't give me a problem but the TTL's original shelss were tough to get out.

My question is, for those of you who have installed aftermarket bushings, did you leave the shells of the original bushigns in the TTL's or did you remove them? It seems to me that I read somewhere in another aftermarket bushing maker's procedure to use a torch to burn the old bushings out and then clean up the bore with a flapper wheel. I don't recall them saying anything about removing the old shells. I will physically compare the bushings to the TTL's tonight, I was just wondering what other's experiences have been.

Thanks

So I have got all the control arms and TTL's and everything and I'm checking stuff and wouldn't you know it, the kit I bought from that guy in Texas has not one but two incorrect part numbers in it.

This is the very reason I started this. No matter how much reading you do and how many people you talk to, you just can't be sure you're getting the right parts when you're ordering from Australia. He got the wrong rear LCA bushings and the wrong rear trailing arm bushings.

I am both frustrated and vindicated at the same time.