When I get my new shocks/struts/springs I also planned on going ahead and getting a front/rear camber kit. Everything seems pretty straight forward and easy. I want to do everything at once and I noticed you handle the tie rods so I want to replace them with polyurethane boots.

Are they easy to come off and install and do I need any kind of grease/lube for the new ones?

any other easy access parts I should replace with polyurethane?(camber kit comes with polyurethane bushings for mounting spots)

 

there is a little metal ring that wraps around the base of the boot. Get a set of needle nose pliers and pull off this ring, then the boot just pulls right off. Then just replace it with the urethane boots. I did the same thing when I replaced my suspension.

 

thanks, did you or is there anything else that can be easily replaced with polyurethane while I'm installing the new parts?

 

I got a Energy Suspension urethane master kit which came with every replacement urethane bushing for the entire suspension, with the exception of the rear LCA bushings. It also comes with the shifter bushings for manuals, and the bushings for power steering (I have manual steering so I have no idea where these actually go).

If you have a sway bar those are really easy to switch out. but the control arm bushings have to be pressed out with a hydrolic press, which most people would have to go to an auto parts store with a shop to get done. I switched out my front LCAs with ones from an EX so that it has the mount for the sway bar. So I took the new LCAs to to my local Oreilly and had them pressed out before I did any work on the actual car. but the urethane bushings you can just push in yourself, not press needed. Also the kit comes with new ball joint boots for the upper control arm joint and the knuckle ball joint. and those come off just as easy as the tie rod boots.

So really the control arm bushings are the only ones that are a pain to replace everything else is pretty easy.

 

you need a press to take them out, but you can push them in yourself? why not cut them or melt them?

 

rubber bushings are different than urethane. Rubber bushings are one piece have to be pressed in and out of a sleeve on the outside of the bushing with a hydrolic press. but urethane bushings are basically two halves that are just pushed in from each side and held in place by a metal sleeve on the inside. and do not require a press, The rubber bushings and the sleeve has to be removed if you decide to do urethane bushings. I know it sounds wierd and I didn't understand it fully until I had the control arm (with stock rubber bushings in place) and the urethane bushings sitting in front of me.

as far as the cutting them I guess you could, but thats some really thick rubber you are gonna be cutting through and that would take a freakin long time and in my opinion would not be worth it. and I don't think it would be possible to melt them. at least not easily