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What is condition of the roads you go by . Also do you ride at normal height.
Most of the roads I travel on in town each day are in decent condition with minor potholes etc., nothing too bad. My ride height is stock height (no air) and I am on 20" wheels.
Miket000 and all,
I am attempted to replace the rear stabilizer bar bushes only without removing the rear stabilizer bar from the car, mainly because of its complex removal procedure. Since Lexus considers the bushes as part of the rear stabilizer bar assembly, Lexus doesn't sell bushes for the rear stabilizer bar. I found that Febest sells them for $17: https://www.febest.us/catalogsearch/...?q=48805-50020. Has anyone used Febest bushes and knows their quality/durability? Or has anyone replaced the bushes only on rear stabilizer bar? As Miket000 pointed out, the bushes were bonded to the rear stabilizer bar. I am wondering how difficult or easy it is to remove the bushes from the rear stabilizer bar. I took a close look at the rear stabilizer bar on my car (photo below). It seems that it is doable to replace the bushes only without removing the rear stabilizer bar from the car. Any comment or suggestions?
There are 3 different sway bars available for LS460/LS600, the bushings do not seem to be compatible with AWD air suspension (USF45,46) and sports suspension.
Has anyone found poly bushings for the rearward lower control arms on the front? The metal sleeve seems to have broken free and is allowing the arm to slide forward and back throwing the alignment off. Figs doesn't list Super pro bushings for this location. I imagine they will be press in bushings, and then the cone shaped bushings to slide on t he metal sleeve on each side so the arm cannot move forward or back within the subframe ears. These arms only have about 15k miles on them.
Update: It has now been 18 months and 12,650 miles on the poly bushings. Everything still looks pretty good overall and the car drives great, but the front bushings on the passenger side may be starting to slightly deform.
Driver Side Rear Driver Side Front Passenger Side Rear Passenger Side Front
Update: It has now been 2 years and 21,000 miles since I installed the poly bushings. They are holding up nicely and performing well. I don't have new pictures, but they look pretty much the same as they did at the 18 month mark.
Update: It has now been 2 years and 21,000 miles since I installed the poly bushings. They are holding up nicely and performing well. I don't have new pictures, but they look pretty much the same as they did at the 18 month mark.
Nice! Great to hear they're holding up well. Did you also get a chance to inspect the revised, lower rearward arms? Same amount of time but half your miles, and mine still rides as well as it did when I first installed all new arms and poly bushing like you did. I'll be inspecting them within the next few months when I change oil & filter and rotate the wheels.
Nice! Great to hear they're holding up well. Did you also get a chance to inspect the revised, lower rearward arms? Same amount of time but half your miles, and mine still rides as well as it did when I first installed all new arms and poly bushing like you did. I'll be inspecting them within the next few months when I change oil & filter and rotate the wheels.
Hey Brother, I hope you are doing well! I did inspect the bushings on the revised lower rear arms and they look about the same as they did 6 months ago in my previous picture up above. The slight tearing on the bushings has increased by a very small amount and I am hopeful they will last at least another 20K miles or more. Let us know how yours look when you get to it in the next few months.
In case anyone gets super pro bushings, they may come with the metal centre portion installed, you need to just push it out, the metal part in the centre is supposed to move freely as opposed to holding and twisting with rubber.
you need to lube the centre hole the polyurethane surface and reinstall the centre tube it just pushes out. They sell or provide the lube. If there’s no lube the poly wears down causing it to no longer be tight and this will clunk etc, so to keep it noise free that centre hole needs to be properly lubed. And any poly surface that will or might touch metal give it a layer of lube.
I admit I did not read all 10 pages but just a few simple questions.
Can the thread stud be removed?
Does it stick out enough to allow me to use double nut method to remove?
Anyone has experience using non OEM mounts? Providing same anti vibration? Is their thread stud removable?
I don't believe you can forcefully unthread it. Boy would that be a kicker if all of us that have tackled this job could have simply unscrewed it lol. I'll be the first to admit, I didn't even attempt it.
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