[NMKawierider]

I've started to notice squeaking in the rear suspension of my machine also. I had greased it around 10 miles, and all fittings took grease, which I pumped until it started coming out the ends of the bushings. I just greased it again last week as I am now about 160 miles (started to notice a squeak in the back) and only 2 of the 4 rear lower A-Arm bushings took grease. Machine is still under warranty, but my dealer is about 150 miles away, so I don't want to have to run it there, drop it, then have to come back and get it again. Question is, did you get new bushings at all or did you just clean up, reuse and glue the old ones back in? I want to get this taken care of before I head to Hatfield McCoys for 8 days in October...

I used all the original bushings The only one that was "ify" because of the looseness to the a-arm tube was the one I just did on the front. The rest still fit the sleeve fine and had not warn too much off the outer bushing or a-arm tube yet. And you can do this without the wear plates. When I first did these to some of the rears, I found that the bushing flange was too thick and was being squeezed or contacted by the mount bracket. With a belt sander I just took a few thousands off so there was a slight side to side movement on the a-arm when tight...only about 10 thousands. Those first bushing mods held up just fine. They were of course glued too. Oh, one other thing. When you do this, don't put the grease gun to it until the glue is 100% dry as it will push it right out the end and you will have to start over. Give it a day or two. Grease your sleeve when putting it together and just wait..be patient. I wasn't and saw one bushing move.

Fantastic. Thank you. I wasn't sure if I should order the bushings before I tore it apart. Didn't want to disassemble and then find out that I needed new ones. I was thinking that they should be ok with the limited amount of miles I have on it so far. Guess I know what I will be doing this weekend. May have said before and I just didn't see it, but what did you use to glue them in? I was planning on using the green locktite.

I use a clear general adhesive. At Lowes it's called E6000.