Has anyone ever replaced all the bushing in the front of their EA82? I have some noise in the front and a lots of wheel slop even after bearings, ball joints, and tie rod ends. I can see that the rubber is all shot. I just don't know what's its called or where to buy them.

Has anyone ever replaced all the bushing in the front of their EA82? I have some noise in the front and a lots of wheel slop even after bearings, ball joints, and tie rod ends. I can see that the rubber is all shot. I just don't know what's its called or where to buy them.

 

I had the exact same problem untill I put in new leading rod bushings. Those are what the most difference for my car. Cheap and easy. Got em a t NAPA. Maybe 12 bucks a side or something like that. Sway bar bushings made no difference.

 

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Mine are shot too. I got 320K miles out of them at least.

 

I agree that the problem is from the arms that come back off the suspension arm to the point on the frame rail kinda by the tranny mounts. The rod bushings... whatever the rod may be called. I'm gonna try to get a set from SOA so I can have em whip out the parts book and point at them and say THOSE!

 

I'm probably gonna have mine professionally installed, or at least have the installation supervised by a pro as I dont really have the tools or the lift to do it efficiently.

these are strut arm bushings . they hook on by crossmember . they have a big nut that holds them on. i bought them from subaru dealer a while ago . the number on the new one i have is 21047ga312. you need 2 to one side. hope this helps

AFAIK, you can't get a set of the control arm inner bushings (other end of the control arm from the balljoints), though C/S/K and similar autoparts stores might try to sell you ones for an EA81.

 

Definitely replace the leading rod/strut bushings. Gets rid of all sorts of nasty behavior. 19mm nut on the end back near the footwells, 14 mm nuts&bolts holding it to the control arm (or pull the control arm if nuts won't budge), slap the new ones on, and bolt it back up.