I just ordered my Energy Suspension Ball-Joint and Non-Power Steering Bushings for my '92 VX and wanted to know how to install them.

For the ball-joint bushings: Do I just remove the stock boots/bushings and slip the b-j bushings on or do they go over the boots?

About the Non-Power steering bushings: How do I installed this? Do I need a press? What benefits/changes should I expect?

Any info. would be greatly appreciated.

 

The ball joint "bushing" don't really do much for the car. They replace the factory rubber boots. The boots job is to keep the dirt out of the ball joint. That is all they do. The steering rack bushings do not require a press. You unbolt the four bolts that are close to where the steering column connects. You might have to remove the rack from the car to do it. I don't think you will have enough play to do it otherwise. To remove the rack, you will have to remove the bolt in the u joint holding the column to the rack (inside the car), remove the four bolts holding the rack to the subframe (driver's side) & remove the two bolts securing the bracket that clamps the rack to the subframe (passenger side).

 

civicrr: Thanks for your response and I really hope I don't have to remove the whole steering rack.

When installing the Energy Suspension boots in the front, all I have to do is
remove the castle nut,
lower/remove the LCA,
tear the stock boot off (or should I be gentle with it?),
bang the ES boot on,
then put it all together by working backwards right?

TIA

 

to remove a ball joint boot there is a small metal clip going all the way around the boot that you can remove by grabbing it with needle nose pliers and working it off of the boot.
it is kind of like one and a half revolutions of a slinky... yes a wire sort of.

 

owen: It is a boot not a bushing... got it!
Do I need those wires/springs for the new ES boots or can I just rip them off?

TIA

 

what are the benefits of aftermarket non power steering bushings?

 

The Non-PS bushing is supposed to give you a more direct feel at the wheel, stabalize the rack (prevent excessive rattle while at speed), and replace the rubber bushings that will eventually wrought (spelling?) away.

At least that is what I've been told by the people at Energy Suspension.

I haven't installed it yet so I guess I will just have to wait and see.