[AAIIIC]

I'm surprised a poly bushing in the front mounting location would work. Poly is typically used to provide more resistance to torsion than a rubber bushing provides. In that front bushing, you want the trailing arm to pivot up and down freely, so you need the bushing to allow that, but resist forward/aft motion under braking and acceleration. A spherical bearing (or one of the spherical bushings like those offered by Ballistic Fab and others) seems like the right answer IMO.

Can you re-load the pics? I'm getting the same error referred to previously.

Edit: The hollow bolt at the knuckle to allow for greasing through the bolt is a good detail.

 

[AAIIIC]

The old MAP trailing arms used a similar part from Rusty's Offroad. You can see them here - http://www.rustysoffroad.com/builder-parts/threaded-forged-ends-inserts/. I'm too lazy to look up the Ballistic Fab pricing, but might be worth comparing. I wouldn't be surprised if there are other options out there, too.

 

[AAIIIC]

I'm beginning to realize I need to drop the cradle to get to and remove the forward most bolt. Has anyone had luck any other way? Otherwise looks like ill be continuing bright and early.

I don't remember who it was, or if they're even on the forums anymore, but I remember one knucklehead cut holes from above so he could access the bolts. :nono:

And the bolts are long enough that you can't feed them in from the bottom when you put things back together - the extra length above the subframe will contact the frame rail above it.

 

[AAIIIC]

Which bushing? The one that's in the bottom of the rear knuckle? It's very squishy, comes out pretty easily - I just used a bigass C-clamp to push it out.

 

[AAIIIC]

Did you remove the rotor to do this, that'll probably make my life easier!

I'm pretty sure that I did remove the rotor. I used the big C-clamp, and then had a chunk of exhaust piping or something like that as a receiver for the bushing to be pushed into.