A while back I noticed the inside of both front tires wearing after only 3000 miles on them, and also noticed the upper control arm bushings were looking pretty nasty. I've had a set of NOS bushings sitting around here since long before I got this car and once I saw that I knew where their home would be.

Today was the day. I don't know that I've ever done upper bushings before on a B body. Looking at the job it looked like it would be pretty easy and it is. I'm not quite done the second side but I took some pictures of the first side I did in case anyone here is planning to do their 65-70 B body and doesn't know what to expect. I lifted it up, pulled the wheel and put blocks under the the brake drum to support it. Some guys will say this warps the drum. I guess we'll see. I've supported the front suspension before this way without an issue but if you're not comfortable this way you can figure a way to support it under the lower control arm. Once this is supported, pull the cotter pin on the upper ball joint, remove the nut on the ball joint and then lift it up so there's about an inch gap under the drum. Separate the ball joint from the steering knuckle, (splitter, pounding on the knuckle loop or whatever method you prefer) and the assembly will drop down that 1" gap you left under it. Remove the two upper control arm nuts and bolts and remove the arm/ball joint assembly.

These bushings are clearly old and need replaced.

To replace them, I found 2 short pieces of pipe that had an I.D. correct so that one pipe nicely fit on the flange on the outside where I want to push to press it in, and the other once had the correct I.D. to support the control arm on the inside but let the bushing pass through the opening. The inside pipe is not visible in this picture but shows in the second picture.  The first bushing can be installed using the vice but the second one can't because the shaft has to be placed in it's spot before pressing in the second bushing.

I forgot to take a picture of installing the second bushing. I used the same piece of black pipe on the outside and cut a 2X4 block the right size for the inside of the arm to friction fit between the 2 ears of the control arm where the 2 bushings press in so that the arm doesn't get collapsed pushing the second bushing in. 

Once the second bushing was installed, I noticed I had a bad gap at each end. It looked like the bushings weren't in all the way, or the arm had spread.

I knew it couldn't be either of those, so I simply installed the bolts and washers on each end and the gaps completely disappeared.

I wanted to mention the tools I used for the upper 2 bolts. I found an offset box 5/8" for the bolt head and a ratcheting 11/16" for the nut worked really well. The bolt head especially has a bit of a difficult access. 

I'm not quite done the second side, the ball joint is fighting me, not wanting to go back into the knuckle loop. I would have kept at it but I suffer from back spasms periodically and that's exactly what started to happen so I called it a day. 

I realize for many of you here this is not exactly an earth shattering "how-to" thread but many people here do very little of this type of work because they are intimidated by it and those are the ones I'm hoping to encourage with this.