I installed the trailing arm bushings tonight, and after installing them it appears that a small piece of the lip was ripped off on it's way through. Is this something i should worry about and replace, or do you suppose it would be alright? The whole busing part is where it needs to be it's just a small piece of the lip that ripped off. Also does it matter which way the "Energy Suspension" logo side faces on these bushings?

 

They don't specify the bushing to face a certain way, (most of the others do, however) just that you install the center pin with the offset as it was removed. That sucks though. It would bother me just because. I get upset about that kinda ****. The lip is pretty much locating the bushing, but it would depend on how much was missing, I guess.
Some on here don't like Energy at all. I checked the range of motion of my tr. arm after install and found it very flexible, I dunno. Prothane looks good, but hella expensive!

 

damn. how was the ride after? **** i tried to do that on my stock dx trailing arms it was too damn hard to i just upgraded to 2000 si rear disc. lol. worth the upgrade i brake so much better now.

 

How much of the lip is missing? I'd get mad and send it back to them but it depends how long you can go without the car

 

It's mostly a project car, so going without it is not that big of a deal. It's just getting that stupid thing back out that i'm concerned about.

 

Once you get past the lip they actually come in/out pretty easy on the ta. I would replace it just because it would bother me knowing that it was like that.

A shade tree way of pressing the bushing out would be to prop your trailing arm up under something heavey like the frame of your car then use a hydrolic jack to press it our from underneath. With the trailing arm on its side and someone holding it up against the underside of your car, you should be able to just position the jack under it and just start jacking the bushing until it pops out. This is how I took out and put in a good deal of my es bushing kit

 

I ended up talking to Energy suspension, and they sent me out another set of bushings, so i am going to replace it.