I had all of the body mount bushings replaced on my 2003 Sport this past July. They were all rotted beyond recognition except for the very front 2. I used the Daystar kit and brought them to a local 4x4 customization shop that did the install for $300. I started this project myself in my one car garage but quickly realized that the $300 meant less to me than the time and frustration of tackling this job with my basic hand tools in the July heat which was not pretty this year.
The guy called me a couple hours into the job and said the Daystar mounts wouldn’t fit…? I had the same kit that everybody else on here has been using and that was the first I had heard of such an issue. He said he needed to cut them down slightly to make them work as they were slightly too tall, I said alright you’re the expert do what you have to do because I’m not about to spend 9 years salary on the Ford pieces nor am I going to pay just to have you put the old rotted bushings back in. Long story short, he cut a small amount off a few of the middle mounts and everything seemed to turn out just fine, the fit is perfect and the mounts feel rock solid (other than the fronts which I had to re-torque just yesterday…but that’s another story). Call me cynical but I’m chalking the trimming up to user error, although I’m interested to know if anybody else has had the same complaint regarding the height of the bushings.
