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Having done about 4 of these installs so far here's a few more tips for the installation:
- You can use the cheap M12 threaded rod from Bunnings and it works fine most of the time. But I did a car where the bushings were stuck in there pretty good and broke the threaded rod a few times and ruined some of the nuts. Worth buying some spare nuts and pre cut a few lengths of threaded rod before you begin. Would be better if the threaded rod and nuts were high tensile steel.
- I removed the bushings in my car with a ratcheting spanner. My electric impact was not powerful enough to remove them. This is slow and tiring work and I am now removing them with a very powerful air impact gun (rated for 850Nm). The air impact can pull a bushing out in less than a minute or so. Will take 10-15 minutes each with a spanner.
- If you cant push the bushings into the subframe by hand, use the floor jack and a piece of wood to press them into place
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