howdoidothis Posted July 17, 2010 Posted July 17, 2010 How much should it cost to replace the lower control arm inner rear bushings, on a 1998 GS-400? The shop gave an estimate of $1,050. The bushings are available online for about $18.00 for both sides. Your advice will be greatly appreciated!
TRDGS300 Posted July 18, 2010 Posted July 18, 2010 the ball joints? that procedure takes about 30 minutes a side. take off your tire and take off the two bolts to the left and the main bolt for the ball join. its really easy, not worth the 1080 the shop is saying. go online as well, many videos on how to do it
howdoidothis Posted July 18, 2010 Author Posted July 18, 2010 man you must be clairvoyant! my post was asking about the lower control arm bushings, but the shop also recommended replacing the ball joints at an estimated cost of $400. based on your reply, i might go ahead and do the ball joints myself. any thoughts about the lower control arm bushings? that sounds more complicated to me...
Infamous 1 Posted July 20, 2010 Posted July 20, 2010 There are a few memebers on ClubLexus that have done this. Here is one of the write-ups. Also, what bushings are you using to replace the old ones? http://www.clublexus.com/forums/suspension-and-brakes/467822-daizen-diy.html
bonesnj Posted October 29, 2013 Posted October 29, 2013 Hi all, Found out the best way to line up Lower control arm and bolts is to first put Bushing on spindle or long bolt from body next "take off tie rod" this will give you flexibility to line up bolts on caster arm it took me two hours of trying to line up bolts to figure this one out! After I took off tie rod it then took 3 minutes to install bolts! (Slap in far - head:).
silverbullitt Posted November 9, 2013 Posted November 9, 2013 Your best bet is to just replace the whole arm. I personally took mine apart and installed high performance daizen bushings & you have to press out old bushings. Reason why I say replace, it's cheaper & less time consuming. Also I found out the later models 01 & up have beefier bushings & don't wear out as fast.
silverbullitt Posted November 9, 2013 Posted November 9, 2013 Also the car has 2 lower control arms on the car per side.
silverbullitt Posted November 14, 2013 Posted November 14, 2013 I have some lower control arms with the daizen bushings installed already if your interested
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