1997 Honda Civic EX
B18C Swap
LS 5 Speed
Grocery list of suspension stuff. especially a busted lca bolt


By the way

I tried to do this swap on friday...
The passenger side lower control arm bolt that goes to the trailing arm snapped. Apparently you cant BUY THE BUSHING... I need a WHOLE FREAKING LOWER CONTROL ARM!!!!!

I am beyond pissed. Car is grounded now because of that.

god damnit.

Should have went with the brackets lol.

I called 2 Honda Dealers and they said they can only get the bushing for the strut, not the others.



no part # on the highlighted bushing.

 

 

Calm down. Even if what you are saying is true, it isn't, there are other options. Hardrace to start, but it does look like you can buy just the bushing for a 1997 Honda Civic Ex. It's like $13 at Hondapartscheap.com. I'd buy two and replace the other side as well.





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moved this post to main post

 

So try online. I provided you a website that currently shows the bushing available. You can also buy aftermarket Hardrace bushings or go to a junkyard and pull the LCAs from another car. Like I said, options.





eH.

 

see my response. thats from hondapartscheap .

I didn't realize 92-95 had a different rear arm than my 97. I guess this warning doesn't apply to this thread then lol

 

I misread your post about which bushing it was. Anyway, for $56+shipping you can replace all 6 rear LCA bushings with Hardrace bushings.

Or you can still try a junkyard for another 96-00(?) rear LCAs.





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That be them.

Im surprised Honduh doesn't have them. Car is at my uncle's garage... so we need parts like yesterday haha.

 

Pic is too small. never mind.

Yeah the 96-00 has a different LCA and doesn't have stock bushings separate of the arm. Interesting.

Also, you can always drill the bolt out of the bushing, it will require titanium bits or you will go through at least 3 titanium plated bits to get through the bolt.

I'd say hit up the junk yards and pull one used.

 

TomCat39, your thread was kinda hijacked. Can you just split the threads?





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You can delete if you'd like haha. I sawzalled the bolt so kinda fubatrd the bushing. New arm coming tomorrow. sigh lol. Lesson learnt!!!!

 

if you can't get the bushing local, just head down to Autozone and have them order the Energy suspension rear lower control arm bushing kit.

SHould be about ~$40-50, but they should be able to get it in less than a day.

 

Thor please edit the first post to include your complete car information, year, make, model, trim and any modifications.

Hijack now moved into it's own thread.

Thanks.

 

I've drilled the bolts out of those bushings before after remove the LCA from the vehicle.

Also, you can try one for a '92 - '95 Civic and see if it fits. I know they do fit first gen CR-V lower control arms which also don't have the bushings listed separately.

 

I noticed I can order it aftermarket. Unfortunately, when I do work at my uncles garage, I need parts that day lol. So its usually OEM stuff... If I want aftermarket, I bring it myself Just want this to be a lesson to peeps that do this.... or just get Scarebird's brackets in the rear

 

Glad to see you have your own thread now!!

So did you just order a new OEM arm then?





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1. Drill bolt out, re-tap, beer.

2. cut nut off the back, knock out old bolt, use new nut with new bolt, beer.

 

If the 96-00 is anything like the the 92-95, that bolt doesn't have a nut per say as much as they just tapped a cylinder part of the trailing arm.

It might be a big cylinder piece of metal welded to the trailing arm then tapped. Not really sure, it's coated with some sort of tar/rubber like undercoat material.

I fuxored that up a bit when I drilled mine out so I just used a new nut after it like a locking nut when I did mine. I did that for all three bolts I had to drill out.... that weekend sucked.

And the nut thread size isn't a common size. I was lucky enough I already had picked up ten nuts with that rare thread pitch for my exhaust awhile back. Was fun locating a fastener company who made them.

 

Correct no nut. I got a new arm. Alignment tomorrow.... Sigh lol