Take note of the position of upper control arm bolts.
The upper control arms are adjusted to change camber and castor angles.
The offset washers allow the arms to slide along the mounting slots.
Take photos or good notes of the positions of all these bolts (there is
an arrow on each washer). You will
need to return the bolts to these positions to
maintain proper alignment.
Remove the upper control arm bolts.
The rear bolt has a nut on the
back side that is nearly impossible to reach from the outside, we had to
crawl underneath the truck to get a wrench on it.
Now you can remove the upper
control arms. Here is one of the upper control arms removed from the
truck.
Note that the bushings have special
washers attached to the bushing shafts.
Carefully remove these steel washers from ends of bushing shafts.
Retain these for use
with the new control arm bushings.
Here is a look at the stock
rubber bushing. These were pressed in with tons of pressure. The rubber
flows and deforms to fit into the opening. The worn bushings are very
hard to remove unless you have a hydraulic shop press. It is possible to melt
or burn the bushing with a torch. While this is an easy method, it is
messy and smells terrible.
Another option is to take the control
arms to a shop that has a press and the proper size collars to push out
the old bushings and install the new ones.