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Rear trailing arm bushing replacement

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7.4K views 9 replies 4 participants last post by  fullcircling  
#1 · (Edited)
I just bought a 2015 camry xle 2.5l vin starting with 4t4. It has 100k miles and looks to be all original parts.

I have some rear sway in the rear of the car. I jacked up the car to inspect and from what I can see and feel with a pry bar, I have worn trailing arm bushings and some worn out sway bar end links. I can't seem to find the bushing for the trailing arm. Does anyone know if I can just replace the bushing or do I have to buy an entirely new trailing arm? I'd perfer to stick to oem if it's not insanely expensive otherwise, aftermarket is fine as long as it's not some cheap $5 part off ebay.

The part number for the whole arm is 487A006011 and is from parts.toyota website. If you look at the picture, it's the bushing on the left. Thanks
 
#5 ·
I was about to get these ones. Whiteline makes pretty good stuff. Polyurethane will lower your ride quality a little; these ones are a proprietary compound. According to their website:

"Our engineered "Synthetic Elastomer" bushings feature the quality ride of rubber at lower speeds and at higher speeds react when under cornering, accelerating and braking loads, for CHASSIS CONTROL and improved handling." ( Rear Trailing arm - lower bushing )


...also these for the front.

Yes you will definitely need an alignment afterwards.
 
#6 ·
I was about to get these ones. Whiteline makes pretty good stuff. Polyurethane will lower your ride quality a little; these ones are a proprietary compound. According to their website:

"Our engineered "Synthetic Elastomer" bushings feature the quality ride of rubber at lower speeds and at higher speeds react when under cornering, accelerating and braking loads, for CHASSIS CONTROL and improved handling." ( Rear Trailing arm - lower bushing )


...also these for the front.

Yes you will definitely need an alignment afterwards.
Awesome! Thank you I'll check this out and report back when I get some time. Today, I just replaced the sway bar links front and back with Moog. Definitely made a difference. The handling had gotten better but it's still not up to my par. I'll check out those parts when I get time.
 
#9 ·
No, just the control-arm bushings. Toyota used a low-modulus elastomer (I suspect TPU - wild guess: maybe around 3-5 MPa) for the two sway bar bushings. I swapped them for higher-modulus TPU (maybe around 20 MPa) at the same time I changed the rear sway bar, and suffered no apparent ill NVH effects.