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Omega General Help / Re: twitchy backend
« on: 01 February 2017, 20:41:14 »Thanks for the advice Nick. I got my car over the pit this afternoon, jacked up both sides near the rear, and levered the rear sub frame mounts about. They really did not move much, not at all sideways, not much up and down. I have seen them move further in MOT tests, but not on this car.
Haynes jacks up and supports the entire rear of the car, removes wheels and front mount support plates, then lowers the sub frame a bit, pops the bolt in the top of the mount, and pulls it down with the puller. You and Feeutso do them one at a time, prying the mounting out from below. I cannot see how I could use my pit with the Haynes method, but I could with yours. From the way you describe it, it can be done. But you're the man who can change rear wheel bearings, which also sounds daunting!
Front subframe bushes are a simple brute force job. Having some extra room to apply it would make the job much easier!
Considering how long the bolt is, you'd have to almost remove the subframe to 'pop it in the top of the mount'
Doing one side at a time means that there's no need to jiggle the subframe around to refit the bolt, as it just goes straight back in.
Did it first time outside, 0.5 meters of snow and -20 C degrees around me. One side at a time using only car jack, crow bar and wrenches. Took like three hours
Second time was about 1,5 years later (summer time), because donuts were already defected. Changed them to polys, took only one hour with same method
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