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MY GALANT VR4 (E39A) DIARY
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The Lower Rear Bushing & Control
Arms Rebuild Project (Commenced 5-Nov-2001)
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Rear Bushings Rebuild Project
The whole project started by noticing some funny
noise from the rear end. I then ordered 3 different sets of bushings
kit from MOFUGAS MOTORSPORTS mainly for the lower arm
and crossmember.
However my mechanic friend advised and
suggested that since quite a nos. of parts would have to be removed.
I might as well rebuild the whole rear suspension mechanism.
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The silicon material bushings arrived in
mid-Oct 2001 but some of the bushings have been mis-ordered.
Therefore after discussing a few times, we have decided to get the
machine shop to fabricate the rest of the bushings in light
weight alloy metal. As shown on the
photos, basically everything were stripped out from the rear end. |
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CROSSMEMBER |
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1st almost everything were taken apart from the rear end. As
shown on the photo, the crossmember was 1st removed, cleaned, spot
welded & repainted.
The whole idea for the spot welded process was
to reinforce the structure in order to make the crossmember
stronger.
Remarks : As pointed from the photo
on the left is where I have installed the light weight metal alloy
bushing.
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Spot Welding As pointed by the red arrows from the 3 photos
on the left are the welding spots added to where the metal joined
each other.
This allows the whole crossmember to be strength up and act a lot
stronger in term of shear force. |
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Alloy Metal Bushings
2 all new alloy metal bushings have been
fabricated for the crossmember in replacement of the original rubber
bushings. |
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Remarks : I have finally picked up the car on 12 Nov 2001
and roughly took it for a quick test drive. What I have noticed is
that after installing the new bushings, there are more noises from
the rear end mainly caused by the metal bushing. From my point of
view, this is the opportunity cost between comfort and road
handling. If you can stand the extra noise, then hard bushings seems
to be a good choice. |
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CROSS ARM
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| The cross arm was removed from the car and
bushing were found in very poor condition. My mechanic then cleaned and
repainted it before he installed 4 pcs new of light weight alloy metal bushing on both
ends. |
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As shown on the photos both from the left and below. The
metal bushings came in total 4 pcs, 2 pcs for each side. Special glue was
applied to the surface of the bushings before being installed to the cross
arm.
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Prepared By : ERIC SO (3 Sept 2001)
soeric@attglobal.net
Updated on :
06 March, 2002
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