How to tell if dogbone is dodgy?

[IanJ]

Dogbone and suspension bushes required.....off to post my interest in the group buy threads!

[Manaz]

ECS Tuning have a pretty good front suspension refresh kit for Mk4 Golfs - worth looking into.

[dubbed]

ECS Tuning have a pretty good front suspension refresh kit for Mk4 Golfs - worth looking into.

I think we need a group buy for this kit. The front of my Golf feels terribly sloppy.

[JustCruisn]

I think we need a group buy for this kit. The front of my Golf feels terribly sloppy.

I may be interested in this too. I have had the control arm bushes done, that cost a heap in labour.
How hard is the refresh to do yourself ?

[gavs]

I may be interested in this too. I have had the control arm bushes done, that cost a heap in labour.
How hard is the refresh to do yourself ?

It's actually quite easy, the hardest bit for me was getting the ball joint bolted back onto the control arm. If I did it again, i'd just drop the ball joint while still attached to the control arm.

Tools required:
Socket set
Spanner set
Jigsaw or Hacksaw
Hammer
Cold chisel
2 blocks of wood, 300x50x25
Bench vice


Alternatively, if you have a big socket set (i.e, a socket with the same outer diameter as the aluminium ring on the bush) you can use that to push the bush back in instead of the wood.

I did see a tutorial on how to do it with the wood somewhere.....