E36 Bushing Help

[jherrer3]

Hey everyone,

I have a 95 318is and I'm replacing the majority of my bushings, RTABs, front and rear sway bar bushings and the rear subframe bushings. I was wondering since I am already doing this work if it would be advisable to switch out my differential mounts as well. Does anyone have any suggestions? Any help would be great.

[fabiosouzajr]

yes. also do transmission and engine mounts, check for play on the rear outer upper control arm bushing and cracks on the lower one.

[IrishRally]

Yep drive train is the most important, motor, transmission, differential, and add a new flex disc/guibo too while you're at it if it looks beat up. If you're going to track the car then do the front subframe reinforcement when doing the motor mounts, and if you plan on adding a bigger sway bar in the rear then do the rear subframe reinforcement too. The only bushing you almost certainly don't need to do in the rear are the upper inner arm bushings. You could add limiters to the stock trailing arm bushings if you like when changing those.

Do all drive train stuff first, then other suspension stuff.

[jherrer3]

Ah ok ok. Yeah what I have I'm going to do is front and rear strut reinforcement, front and rear subframe reinforent, real trailing arm pocket reinforcement, rtab bushings with limiter, rear subframe mounts, front and rear swaybar mounts, and rear differential bushings. Also putting in a cross brace as well.