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Old Mar 8, 2015 | 08:26 PM
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Ford Explorer Rear Body mount bushing replacement

2001 Ford Explorer Sport (not sport trac) 4.0l 5r55e 2wd

Ok so I picked up a sweet deal of an explorer yesterday.
Sure enough I get her home and find out she needs both the rear body mount bushings replaced. Ok no sweat so I go to autozone...they cant find them... Ok I look in the book for replacement procedure... Nothing, To YouTube! ...nope nothing there either.

Best I can tell this is a common issue for the Ford Explorers but I cant find any information on HOW to replace the darn things, let alone where to buy them.

So I turn to my faithful friends here at FTE, because I KNOW someone in here has replaced these before

Thanks!
 
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Old Mar 9, 2015 | 05:38 PM
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Happy to say after doing some digging I was able to order the new bushings for this through AutoZone and figure out their installation! Since there seams to be no solid material on this install I will do a quick write up here with some pictures and part numbers once they come in!

Hopefully the install will go smoothly without any problems
 
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