JasonPAtkins
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- 2002 Mountaineer V8 AWD
I live in West Africa. My Explorer spends its daily drive on roads many would consider an off-roading experience.
As a point of reference, Moog off road sway bar links are good for about a year over here.
Anyway, I still heard a metallic clicking after replacing the sway bar links this year (which is where the clicking is usually coming from), and discovered this gap in the front upper control arm rear bushing. The nut it tight, it's not that it backed off or anything.
The question is, what's this supposed to look like? Am I missing a part that should've held the non-nut end of the bushing, or some kind of rubber that should be filling the gap between the washer-by-the-nut and the bushing? Or do I just need a new set of four bushings?
I don't see any damage to the UCA or the ball joint on the third point of the triangle, so I'm tempted to just replace all four bushings, rather than a pair of new UCA's, as it's expensive to have stuff shipped over here.
The roads have a ton of speed bump and potholes - I'm assuming this wore because of all of the force exerted backward on the wheels by all of these road features.
I'm not a suspension guru though. Think I'm safe just pressing all four bushings out of the UCA's and replacing with new bushings, or am I missing something else that's broken and fallen away here?
As a point of reference, Moog off road sway bar links are good for about a year over here.
Anyway, I still heard a metallic clicking after replacing the sway bar links this year (which is where the clicking is usually coming from), and discovered this gap in the front upper control arm rear bushing. The nut it tight, it's not that it backed off or anything.
The question is, what's this supposed to look like? Am I missing a part that should've held the non-nut end of the bushing, or some kind of rubber that should be filling the gap between the washer-by-the-nut and the bushing? Or do I just need a new set of four bushings?
I don't see any damage to the UCA or the ball joint on the third point of the triangle, so I'm tempted to just replace all four bushings, rather than a pair of new UCA's, as it's expensive to have stuff shipped over here.
The roads have a ton of speed bump and potholes - I'm assuming this wore because of all of the force exerted backward on the wheels by all of these road features.
I'm not a suspension guru though. Think I'm safe just pressing all four bushings out of the UCA's and replacing with new bushings, or am I missing something else that's broken and fallen away here?