greasing the bushings

[TheBeast]

hey guys when I put my LCAs on I obviously didn't grease the bushings up enough. SLP sent me 2 packets of grease for the LCAs and panhard rod but in the install process I lost one so I had to ration it out. [img]smile.gif[/img] anyways, the control arms are squeeking way too much at slow speeds. i haven't gotten up under the car again, but is there a trick to greasing them up again without completly taking the arms off again?

[DominusEtDeusNatus]

I don't think 1LEs have grease fittings.

[TheBeast]

they sent me the non-melting grease with the poly bushings. doesn't slp's version of the LCAs just use the different bushing? i hope it is not supposed to sound like this....my car sounds old and rickety going over bumps!!

[DominusEtDeusNatus]

1LEs have rubber bushings. They shouldn't make any noise at all. Even poly makes no noise at all when gresed up correctly.

[TheBeast]

:D Well thats sort of what I'm wondering... My polys aren't greased up correctly, just didn't know if there is a trick to re-grease them without completely taking the control arms off. Once that bolt comes out the axle will shift and with my puny stock jack I won't be able to be agressive with it trying to line up the holes.

[DominusEtDeusNatus]

Oh cmon. I took my control arms off so many times. Both at once also. All you need to do it push the axle in whatever direction you want. If I can do it with one hand while putting the bolt with the other it can't be that hard. Plus it never shifted on me when I only had one control arm out. I took my axle completely off and never spend more then 10 seconds on pushing it in the correct spot.

I always jack it up and also put jack stands under it and put jack stands under the body if I'm going to remove shocks. With the axle on jack stands and no weight on it since the body is also on jack stands it moves around quite easily.

[TheBeast]

I'm lazy though. :D

Ah, I need to get me some jack stands. Usually when I work on my car I'm in my friend's garage and hes got all that stuff. I don't have jack here though (no pun intended :D ).