Greetings all,

I'm new to the board and have been reading since purchasing my 240 wagon about a month ago. This is my first post as up to now everything has been going smoothly until....

So I am half way through the replacement of suspension bushings on the front end, specifically working on the left side. I've identified the different control arm rear bushings and have begun to install the rear bushing on the left side into its respective bracket. But now I see that there is a yellow dot on the bushing which I assume to mean it goes in a certain way.

Which way does the yellow dot go? Does it reference "up", "down", or ???

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Tony Fontaine
'85 240DL (w/ only 87,000 miles, perfect interior, & near perfect exterior!)

Where did the bushings come from? You might ask the parts guy.
It used to be that there was a different bushing for left and right. Supposedly, to account for differing stresses on the mounts. However, last time I replaced them a few years ago, the parts guy told me that didn't really matter and their shop's practice was to use the stiffer ones on both sides. A few years before that I replaced the bushings with the left and right styles, and I recall that one of them might have had a dot on it to distinguish them. I don't know for sure if this how it is for your bushings or not.

Check the mounts for the larger bushings carefully. Mine had become out of round and resulted in clunking.

Good Luck,
Tom

The left bushing from factory has 2 long slots in the rubber. The right bushing has a seried of holes in the rubber. Hope that helps.

Sometimes....

If memory serves me correctly - the last set I installed were solid - no holes - no slots...


Depends upon mfgr..