Dedicated DA9 Q & A thread

i got this pic from honda-tech.com, i circled red what i think is the bush, am i correct?

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/8420/busgh.jpg

Thanks for you help guys, going to take a look at it tonight.

you circled the whole trailing arm... so yes. the bushing is where it connects to the chassis, ie the black rubber ring in the middle of the trailing arm

ps. if your a member of Honda-tech, you should download the service manual for the da9 free from the site. then check out the suspension section for the trailing arm info

ah ok, i thought that it was the ring part in the middle.
Thanks guys, ill let you know how my car shopping go's :P

Yeh get in there with a torch and check if they're still rubber or if they've been replaced with a notholane (sp?) bush. If they're still rubber check for tears and cracks in the rubber.

majority of them either on civics tegs etc. r all stuffed

hey with the trailing arm bushes, are they press, removable and how much are they just for the part?
i had a look at mine today there farked lol

pair of bushings OEM about $200 i have ordered the X-TRACTOR Tool to remove and install so see how it all goes.

USD$105 www.kingmotorsports.com

Bought from these guys a couple of times now and they ship very fast with no hassles at all.

Did mine with a hammer. It sucked but worked.

Buy after market, the genuine ones aren't strong enough.

Can be done with a hammer and a hacksaw but a shit load easier with a press.

You never need a hacksaw. I replaced the trailing arm bushings with sphericals on the weekend and they popped out with 3 or 4 hits from a big mallet.

OEM bushings are plenty strong as long as you have them aligned properly. If you are lowered you're going to have a very hard time getting them to be vertical at normal ride height which will give you funky toe changes when you don't want them.

One of the two pairs I've done had to be cut out, there was no way they were coming out with a hammer. I can't comment from personal experience but they were replaced at 90k in the log book of my stock auto grandma integra and were gone again when I got it at 150k. To me that says there is something wrong with them. And plenty of people on g2ic have the same issues.

Strange; I've done 2 pairs and they all came out easily with a good few whacks - maybe you need a bigger hammer :D. The pair I replaced with OEM were a nightmare to bash back in I will admit.

The only problem with a 'stronger' aftermarket item is that it probably won't replicate the function of the OEM piece. If the replacement bushing doesn't allow lateral deflection of the trailing arm then you are going to be putting greater stress on all your other rear bushings. A completely filled RTA bushing without a floating centre bar is NOT a good idea. When I installed my spherical bushing in the RTA I ran the suspension through it's range of movement and the trailing arm moves side to side ~10mm when all the other bushings are moving in their natural axis. If you constrain that part of the arm to one point then something will bind.