Dear Truck Owners!

I own Chevy Suburban 2003 2500 VIN 3GNGK26U03G215528.

Now I have a strange problem with replacing lower control arm bushings.

Here a pic of my left arm, I found only such # on it - 1223B II K8BL9L which gave me nothing as this is not GM but part #:


As I understood this is not original lower arm as the original one have to look like this:


Probably I have a lower control arms from Chevy Suburban 1500 or Avalanche 1500 (GM 12475479), like this:


So initially I did not know this and bought 2 kits of bushings: 15034801 & 15034802.

But when I started to change them, I saw that they possibly will not fit to my arms, please see the pics:



I saw that the original bushings have the same length but they seem to be any other form (original - more cylindrical and have blunt ends, new are oval and have protruding ends). I am afraid that after the installation the arm will not lock into place....

So could you be so kind and help me to understand:

1. if I am right and have non-original lower arms (don't understand how it was installed?!)
2. what bushings will be correct for my arm (all bushing I found to 1500 or 2500 bases have the same oval forms as mine!)

Thank you to All and sorry if my questions may be stupid )

Kind regards,
Ashot

 

LOL certainly not stupid questions if I can't answer them!!

 

I would suggest using RockAuto to compare what you have..

 

hello , i would suggest calling a gm dealer with the vin number and see if they have them ,and see if you can talk them out of the part number to cross it over they show quite a few different styles probably because of the plant they were made . i cant see in the picture too well but it looks like you have a two piece bushing ,steel inner sleeve and rubber outer .these have to be press in and the rubber outer expands as it is pressed in .
if it has a steel outer shell then rubber then a steel sleeve for the bolt to go through it does not expand the rubber but still presses in.