Herbold Racing!

Now that I have the new bushings for the control arms, it’s time to tear it down and get the control arms out.  Just doing the lower control arm on the driver’s side took me all day.  What a learning experience.  I even managed to tear both my control arm ball joint boots on that side.  Something surprising – both torsion bars on the Dart are missing the lock clips that are supposed to hold them in place.  It’s a wonder they didn’t just rattle out when I was doing 70 on the freeway.  I managed to get the lower control arm off completely by the end of the day.  I think tomorrow morning I will try to tackle the upper control arm on the driver’s side.  Then it is wash, rinse, and repeat for the passenger side.  Andy suggested that I just take the control arms to a front end shop to do the actual bushing swap.  I think that’s probably an excellent idea!