The back rubber, that with the clamp https://www.auto-onderdelen24.nl/sidem/2051090 , of the Front suspension lower arm https://www.auto-onderdelen24.nl/jp-group/8174020 on the right, is totally worn out. The Skoda dealer advised to renew both (left and right) Front suspension lower arms. I by myself was thinking just to renew the left and right back rubbers (those with the clamps). Has anyone a suggestion or advise? Just renew both back rubbers left and right or renew both the left and right Front suspension lower arm ((including the ball joints))??

Depending on tools you have available, there is plan A and plan B.

 

Plan A: you have a good press / vice, hammer, chisel, extractor, socket wrenches - replace all rubber bushes. If at least one ball joint is loose, replace both too. Everything should be replaced in pairs.

 

Plan B: only socket wrenches - replace both track control arms already fully equipped.

Thanks Ricardo for the plans, but due to lack of the right tools I have to go for plan C and that is bring it to a garage workshop also because this piece https://www.auto-onderdelen24.nl/sidem/2051090

is next to bolted to the chassis also rivetted. Impossible to drill it out because of no electricity in my workshop.

Maybe you can advise me on the mark and price of the part full lower arm suspension https://www.auto-onderdelen24.nl/jp-group/8174020

Go for cheap or middle priced articled?

44 minutes ago, jawi said:

this piece https://www.auto-onderdelen24.nl/sidem/2051090

is next to bolted to the chassis also rivetted

Drilled out? Why? There is nothing 'riveted' that a sharp chisel can't handle. Moreover, that is just a centering pin, it is not a bolt.

 

50 minutes ago, jawi said:

Maybe you can advise me on the mark and price of the part full lower arm suspension https://www.auto-onderdelen24.nl/jp-group/8174020

They look OK. Avoid made in China ones. Anything rubber from them is rubbish. The steel is softer. Any alloy is brittle. Etc.

so that centeringpin has to be removed too? And if so, can I at refitting everything, change this for a bolt/nut combination?

 

a blunt chisel can be made sharp, a vice and steel and rubber hammers are present, even something of a retractor and wrenches in abundance

well I have to  zen meditate on this for a while and pull all my personal and mental resources together and start with it

thanks for the advise

32 minutes ago, jawi said:

so that centeringpin has to be removed too?

If it is riveted to the bush, yes of course.

32 minutes ago, jawi said:

And if so, can I at refitting everything, change this for a bolt/nut combination?

Yes.

Edited 31 May, 20188 yr by RicardoM

Hi Ricardo, went to a garage for this job because everything was so rusted and stuck that I broke several tools on it. But the garage didn't placed any centeringpins. Is that a problem? Can't get in touch with this garage because on holiday, although I already e-mailed them. cheers