Well the ScanTech control arm arrived from FCP and even though I'm packing it up and sending it back, it looks nice. Hard to tell its not original. I thought the welds looked good and the weight/thickness feels the same, just to the eye.

The bag says Scantech Sweeden. I didn't know this is a Sweedish company and hear everybody bitch (strong word, but I haven't heard one compliment) about their parts. This one is nice. I've never got a bushing and that seems to be what everyone dislikes.

Boge bushings are in fact the Volvo/Boge run. My rear positions bushes have "Volvo" scraped off the rubber. The dealer Volvo front position bushings are nice. Boge's too.

POR-15 is incredible stuff. I hope to post some pictures of the sandblasted/refurbed ca's. The guy at the machine shop I showed thought it was powder coated. Dries fast and fills nice. I will use this stuff again and I should have removed the entire front cross member and sand blasted that too. Next year, or when the steering rack goes.

I tried freezing the bushings and using a vice and wood blocks to get them in. I got the big bracket bushings in, but I couldn't get the fronts in. Back to the machine shop. I hope he doesn't hammer these too. I asked him to use the press.

Well I'll update again when installed. I had bad clunks that I felt slightly in the steering wheel but mostly hard under my feet in the floor board on my side. This was after I replaced upper strut mounts, struts, inner and outer tie rods, ball joints and all sway bar bushings. This is the last thing in the suspension to address so I'm looking forward to finally having a properly dampened front end.

As many folks mention here on BB, the control arm's rear position bushings were shot and the fronts were comparably ok. Still meriting replacement, but not falling apart like the rear.

Some people told me "those Volvo's are just clunky by nature." But that's untrue. Any 20 year old car that clunks has worn out parts. It's just the question of whether or not you want to deal with trouble shooting it. You'd never tell by looking at the rear control bushes from under the car that they were roached. Apart, was a different story. That and the inconvenience of the car being on jack stands for a week and me riding my bike to work 3 miles in the wind and rain.

As soon as I can afford a $500 project 240 sedan, I'll have a second car!
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89 245 'loaded' with a Great Pyrenees