Yeah the strut top bearings have been the bane of my life. I've swapped out 3 shagged ones in total and what I have in now is noisy as hell. They don't like you putting neg camber in from the bottom I can tell you that much. RE the dogbone, even if the bridges between the voids in the bush material are in tact, the bush is terrible. There is just so much movement. Once you have the new ones in it feels transformed.