Stef ran my VIN today to check.

ok its not your car or that i didn't believe you. i just want to specifically see what the rear end sport suspension control arms. like pics of non spherical bearing vs bushing control arms.

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Daniel's car doesn't have sport suspension.
Stef looked up the vin at the dealership (as she did with our Beams and Manny's car). Manny's and our car had the sport supension listed as an option, Daniel's car didn't. Eod.

Here are some pics of the 96+ sport suspension sperical bushings in the trailing arms.
The arms on the top are the non-adjustable and the bottom are the (camber) adjustable.



2 things about the arms:
1. there are sperical bearings in them with a small rubber boot over them for protection.
2. the adjustable arm's heads are smaller than the non. Look at the width of the heads.

Here's another shot.

and the poly bushings


Look at the size of the bushing in the adjustable trailing arm (left) and the size of the bushing in the non (right), the holes in the arm heads are different sizes.

Now, for 94-95 non sport suspension (or STs too), all of the bushings are rubber. The heads of the trailing arms are the same size and the poly bushings fit in perfectly.
For 94-95 w/SS, the heads are the same size but you have sperical bearings, not rubber. They need to be pressed out and the poly bushings fit perfectly.

96+ w/SS, you have sperical bearings, and your adjustable trailing arms are different. They suck, the poly bushings won't fit.
96+ w/o SS (or STs) I assume you have the same size heads on the trailing arms and rubber bushings, poly bushing fit perfectly (Stef has a 97 ST and that was the case, no issues with poly bushings.

FYI here's pics of the poly bushings in the Beams (94 GT w/SS)









Here's a link to Manny's pics, 94 GT w/SS and now poly bushings
Notice all of his trailing arm heads are the same size)
http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=90536

And Stef's link to her poly bushings
http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showto...amp;hl=hurley97

And moar !
http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showto...mp;#entry860146

If anyone needs more clarification, post up some questions.

This post has been edited by Batman722: Sep 12, 2013 - 5:57 PM

hmm reminds me of

>>>>OK Great info lets get this stickied!!>>>>

got this off here http://www.alltrac.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=21366

>>>>I'm not sure if these oem bushing will fit into rear 6gc control arms. look a bit big??>>>>

not sure if its the angle, but this looks smaller than the ST202 part?

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It's the angle.
Here's the same part from the top/front in another pic.



New revelation, Stef's 97 ST doesn't have one of those.
It could be a GT thing, or a 94-95 thing, or a sport suspension thing.
Doing research now.

just to confirm these are not sports package right, they almost look the same... and they came out of st

Looks like sport to me and they'll have to be pressed out.

Under the rubber, is there metal or just rubber all the way through ?
Rubber all the way through is non-sport, metal bearing is ss.



Look at the top right, the metal bearing between the bolt and the arm.

Yeah, metal between. But the other one the adjustable one does not look like the pic u posted.. Why would an st celica have sports susp. Beats me... Unless the p.o. Swapped.

The adjustable arms head is not smaller, it looks the same.. Ill have to measure tomorrow...

So all the heads look the same, right ? (same size)
But they all have metal instead of just rubber, right ?
Easy, press them out, pop in new polys.

yeah, funny thing, i dont want to go through this with my vert

So I checked my rear trailing arm that adjusts camber and it has the skinny end points like batman posted. However if I understood correctly, we have a total of 8 spherical bearings on the rear trailing arms?

This post has been edited by BonzaiCelica: Oct 20, 2014 - 8:06 PM

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