Rear Trailing Arm Bushing Shot, Can I Replace or special tools needed? Options

[Spoke]

Well, I got closer to road ready with a new clutch.

Then on further inspection, I found the driver side rear swing arm has a bad bushing. The shiny part of the suspension ear shows how the trailing arm has been moving around. The blue screwdriver is in a hole in the metal caused by the movement of the arm at the pickup point.

This puts me in a real predicament since I have a 5-lug suspension to put on the car but have at least a month or more of work (at my pace) on the wheels (strip, polish, paint), install suspension, flare fenders, and I want to get the car on the road ASAP.

Question: How hard is it to replace a bushing? I'm thinking of repairing just this one bad bushing. Are any special tools required?

Maybe one of my local 914 brothers has a spare swing arm that I can "borrow" for a couple of months. Perhaps we can swap some parts.

Spoke

[Eric_Shea]

(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/agree.gif) could be... I've just never seen them move that much. If you're luck that's the only issue. I don't have any ideas on the budget repair thing. I think the best/easiest way is to swap with a good arm.

You may want to check with Eddie Brown in Bakersfield. I believe he has some cores coming back to me. You could swap with one of those because I don't care about the condition of the bushing in the core...