Thanks! Planning to do a complete rear suspension bushing/control arm overhaul in a couple of weeks.

With the bushings being only $60 for 4 its a no brainer to do these as well. The lower swing arm is easy enough to remove and its pretty much halfway removed when you do the ball joint/integral link as well

Exactly my thought. Got the wishbone bushes ready. About how much time it took to remove the wishbone swing arm?

Thanks!

Guys,
Make sure to safely jack up the X every time you work on it.
My X fell of the stand jacks today when I was slightly jacking one side to install the wheel.
thanks god I had the wheels put under near the jack pad points,otherwise it would've been a disaster.
It took me one hour and a half to get it on wheels.Every freaking time I was intending to raise one side it would just slide to the opposite one.
Asked a friend of mine to bring his X's jack and then slowly got it up on the spare and then back on the original set.
It was the experience I wouldn't like to repeat.
Be safe.Always have stuff handy in case something goes wrong.

My indie showed me the bushing compressor he used to do mine. It's a tapered socket the bushing is pulled into with a bolt and washer much like the way a gear or pulley puller would work. He said the front position bushings in the swing arm were the toughest to do and the swing arm would definitely be damaged it you tried to let it compress the bushing as it was driven in. I noticed that Summit Racing sells bushing installation sleeves that might be usefull.

2002 X5 3.0 247,400 miles
2004 325i 114,000 miles

I see there are two part numbers for Rear Lower Control Arm bushings. Can you tell me why?

If you refer back to the original post in this thread, I believe one of them is what Bolt #16 goes through, and the other is for Bolt #18. The ECS description does refer to "rear position" (for bolt #18) and "forward position (for bolt #16).

The thread title calls that big thing a rear lower wishbone, some call it a swing arm, it appears those parts you refer to call that thing the Rear Lower Control Arm. All correct, but confusing.

In the post #1 diagram, I'd call part #11 the rear suspension rear upper control arm, AKA "rear control arm". part 6 is the rear suspension forward upper control arm, or "guide link". Part #17 is the rear suspension swing arm, wishbone, or lower control arm, take your pick.

I overhauled the rear suspension in my '01 soon after I first got it, and unfortunately did not know that ECS sold these bushings separately. If I had, I would definitely have replaced them "while I was in there," even though mine looked fine at 170k miles.

Did you do the job? Was it easy?