Hello Yuri, I just went through this. I have a 99V70 awd and the rubber was cracked through. Dlr. sold me the bushing, $10-11 as I recall. I removed the bracket from the engine because it would be easier to press the new one in. I had to remove the 8 torx screws to remove the two plastic valley covers, easy. Then the 4 (14mm)bolts that hold the bracket to the head, easy also. Because the mount was separated, I removed the center piece and used a hacksaw blade to carefully cut through the O.D. of the outer pressed in piece. You can then just push it out with your hand. It cut through very quickly because it is made of Plastic, (this surprised me), not steel. I usually always clean the bore of any hole that I am going to press someting into.
The bushing that the dlr gave me was the wrong one. The new bushing that he gave me just dropped rt. through the hole. Called dlr., he finds out that somewhere in '99 they went to a non-replaceable bushing. He has to order the whole bracket w/bushing... oh well. The new one has the bushing O.D. which is made of plastic also. (I scraped on the O.D. to tell)
The second time I did the job it took only 20 minutes, start to finish. The Dlr. parts guy says, that the one that has the replaceable style bushing is, and I quote, "impossible to do on the car"... too tight a fit he says, you need a press to get the new one in properly and oriented with the arrow up. BTW, on the new one the arrow was not 90 deg. to the base mounting surface, it was pointing at about 11 o'clock, relative to the base surface, due to the tilt of the engine. Picky, those Swedes. HTH, Tom
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