After a very nice birthday dinner for Bernadett where we ate way too much, me and Arthur weren’t quite done for the day so we decided to replace the torque arm bushings and install the torque arm. I bought a Energy Suspension bushing set a while ago for the leaf spring shackle bushings and body mount bushings but I didn’t realize it also came with bushings for the torque arm. I was a little worried about the old torque arm bushings because they had been in the oven during powder coating so I figured they were in pretty bad shape. When I pressed them out I found that they were a series of metal semi-cylinders separated by rubber. I think they may have been just fine even after the heat. I pressed the new bushings in (by hand) and mounted the torque arm on to the truck. Due to lack of space I had a little trouble getting the nut on the bolt at the frame side of the arm and also ended up having to put the lock washer on the head side of the bolt.
We also put on the new center caps on the rear wheels. They look really nice!
