Bushings!:)

[Ivan141]

Okay, now onto the more complicated part of the job, the rear suspension.
We started by just taking off the rear stabiliser bar completely..
The middle 2 mounts are easy to take off, 1 bolt each. The end links are also pretty easy to take off if you take a good look. They are supported by a single nut on top of the assembly, if you leave the stabiliser hanging when you undo the first turn of the nuts then the endlinks cant move, making the process a bit easier. (So first undo both nuts a bit, because it's more difficult otherwise). Also undo the nuts holding the bar to the endlinks a bit before you take everything off.

The old bushings can be pressed out of the stabiliser using a vice and some large sockets or bits of pipe, we put a larger socket behind the bushing to stop the bar (so same diameter as metal around bushing). Then put a smaller socket in front, or a smaller pipe that pushes on the metal insert, and tighten the vice. This will push the bushing out into the larger socket. The new bushings can be pressed in using the vice, if one side wont cooperate you can squeeze it in using some big channel locks (err dunno if thats the correct name for them...waterpomptang in dutch..).

Before you start working on the 4-links, it is easier to get the panhard rod out of the way, and possibly even the rear springs. Just undo the top mounting bolt, then undo the mount on the axle and slide it off of the axle backwards. Dont lose the metal shims because you will be re-using them..

The bushings of the panhard rod are the most difficult ones to remove, you can press out the rubber on both of them in the usual fashion with the vice (theyre a bit small for mux's drilling method). The bushings on the lower axle side mount of the panhard are of a 3 piece design, they'll probably fall out on dissasembly, the other side is more difficult.
When the rubber is out of the chassis (top) mounting point, you will most likely notice that the bushings dont fit. That is because there is a metal sleeve in there that is corroded and probably not coming out. To remove this one you need to find a metal piece of pipe that is exactly the same diameter as the sleeve, so you can rest the sides of the mounting hole on the vice, and hammer out the sleeve. The new bushings for this hole are 2-piece design, easy to fit. The axle side mount however gets a 1 piece bushing to replace the old 3-piece one. Pressing this one in is very tricky, same principles apply as with the rear stabiliser bushings. press and squeeze in the protruding bits.