Rubber bumpers install
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Rubber bumpers install
Any advice or techniques on installing new rubber bumpers on frame, control arms and rear end? New ones are sometimes hard to install especially rear end bumpers and control arm bumpers. Lubrication or heat help any? Trying not to rip anything.
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If you want to buy specific temporary rubber lube (and not the drugstore kind 
) ACDelco has repackaged rubber parts P80 assembly lube. It's probably the best temp lube for assembly you can buy. Think KY for your car.
If you want to cheap out, get some of the cheapest hand dishwashing soap you can find, like the store brand stuff at Kroger or whatever, and mix just a little water with it like oldcutlass mentioned. Not much water, you still want it to be "slickery". Should work just fine for what you need to do. Either way, you'll have to use a little grunt force.
If you have any glycerin laying around, that works too, but nobody I know of usually has that on their workbench. We used it for O-rings at work quite a bit.
There's no shortcuts in restoration!
) ACDelco has repackaged rubber parts P80 assembly lube. It's probably the best temp lube for assembly you can buy. Think KY for your car.
If you want to cheap out, get some of the cheapest hand dishwashing soap you can find, like the store brand stuff at Kroger or whatever, and mix just a little water with it like oldcutlass mentioned. Not much water, you still want it to be "slickery". Should work just fine for what you need to do. Either way, you'll have to use a little grunt force.
If you have any glycerin laying around, that works too, but nobody I know of usually has that on their workbench. We used it for O-rings at work quite a bit.
There's no shortcuts in restoration!
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