Thank you for posting the video. You saved me a lot of time 🙏🏽. Ok, here’s my experience and tips. I did mine today on an 07 STS base. It has the dual exhaust, so you’ll have to remove it from the rear hangers and center brace, when you do this, it will drop down out of your way. No lift, just two jack-stands as high as I could safely get them. The hardest part was removing the metal part of the bushing. An air hammer is your friend in this case. (Chisel & hammer attachments). Also, I did remove the rear drive shaft ( 3 bolts,l) mark the drive shaft alignment and the two rear differential bolts, this will allow the diff to drop down. Other than that, if you can get a rachet (cordless or air) it will make the job a lot easier. I pressed the new bushing in with a ball joint press and grease. When I got close to the end, I had to put one of the cap attachments on the back, because the bearing center will stick out. Overall, it took about 2.5 hours with a few breaks in between. Hope this helps!
Best video on TH-cam for this, every one else seems to be stripping their cars to nothing to change this bushing! Thank man great video. Even laughed a few times haha
it makes me a little sick when i think of the time people are wasting because they learned how to do an easy job the wrong way , thats why i started with this video, and I am adding many more, thanks for the feedback.
Best video I've seen of replacing this BS part for this BS differential on this BS caddi. I still like the car but I hate cranking a wrench on it. Everything is so damn tight in there... thanks for the knowledge Sir...
As additional input for others, I attempted this process last night. I lost a fair amount of time trying to stay with drop only the differential approach. Without a cutting torch (I did use a MAP gas torch to warm up the differential sleeve to ease the bushing sleeve removal), you cannot get a straight line for a body saw or recipricating saw. Note the immediate right angle of the cutting torch in the vid, a saw will not have this angle. I had to remove the drive shaft coupler to allow the front of the diff to point down at a 45 deg angle. Then a reciprocating saw made fast work of the sleeve. Having an air ratchet and a 3/8" drive 21mm six pt. socket is worth whatever price you pay for it for the rear two bolts. I did not have a 3/8" drive 21 mm socket to remove (1/2" socket too deep) but I guarantee I had one for re-assembly. Once the old sleeve was out, I could not find a direct way to get ball joint press in line. I then unhooked both mufflers (don't worry, there is a cross member in the drive tunnel that still supports them. Once unhooked, they spread a few inches more and the press had the new bushing seated in 30 seconds. The drive shaft coupler bolts are 18mm.
s0rry you had such a difficult time with this, I often forget sometimes how thrity years exp and a lift and all the right tools can simplify things for me. this should be a lesson for anyone attempting this job. also, is you re-watch, i didnt have a straight line with ball joint press as well, untill it was about halfway in, then you get the straight line, and also, if you torch wont cut ie oxy asettalene, dont bother, you will overheat and maybe melt the diff housing !!
@@MsHooper101 No worries, I appreciated the approach. I have a Bend-Pak mid rise lift so the car was at the 22" lock as I was on my back. I had the impact, long extensions and air ratchet. My air hammer did not have a chisel but Amazon should deliver tomorrow. Just glad I no longer have a "thump" when i take my foot off the gas at slower speeds...
Gotta love this... only old wrench benders will find that the humor is exactly correct. Right down to the carbide toothed squirrel...you actually made me relax because I have been putting this off for a year now...I didn't want to bpull the axel and all that crap
Thank you for a great DIY video, it is professional and entertaining. It made my job replacing the bushing on my SRX easy, except the darn squirrel was not cooperative! One tip to share with others to easily install the new bushing is to use one of the long differential bolts with the nut and a couple of large washers, position the new bushing in place and insert the long bolt through it to the other side of the mount. Install the washers and the nut on the other side and tighten it. I got the bushing half-way in there using this method and used the ball joint press to finish the job.
I have to do this soon on my 05 CTS, i don't have a big lift or anything either. Im not a pro mechanic or anything, but i did get this car to try and learn as much as i can, think i could do it without a big lift?
ima be honest, the cts is much harder to get to the rear diff bolts even on a lift, unless you were a pro i wouldnt even consider the attempt, but all is not lost, i would recomend, get to the bushing, scrape out whats left of the rubber , LEAVE the outer shell in place, then get a rudimentary measument of the hole and find some rubber or urathane unversal style chassis bushings and squeeze them in by what ever means, thing about rubber and urathane you can grind cut and and then to fit, maybe not a repair, but more than sufficient, if you cannot pry the diff down enough to expose the bad part without removing the two rear bolts through the frame, you might have to bight the bullet on this one an pay for the rediculas 6 hours or so that it calls for to do the job . this is no begginer operation. hope this helps anf good luck ,
ha ha guess i missed the orginal question,, a couple jackstands could position you for a hard time working on your back, but i wouldnt attempt it that way, soooooo. ? it could thorettiically happen ? 😁
@@MsHooper101 I'm still young and been lucky enough to not have to do a lot of work on my back, so if I can get any luck at all about being able to get to it, i think my back will be ok just this once
@@MsHooper101 I'll let you know how it goes though! I've made it fix whatevers wrong with this car all by my self. I've not done anything on this scale on it but imma try like hell lol
tighten bolts till they break, then back them off half a turn! honestly, I dont ever look them up, after 35 yrs my torque wrench is built in. but 60-70 ft-lbs should do ya.
i just want to add, i came up with this repair after watching other ludicrous attempts at this on youtube. i have done several times since. this a srx, which has much more working room than cts, but the part and problem are the same on both. although i have not attempted this repair on cts, this fix should be possible also although a bit more difficult on cts .feedback appreciated.
I have this exact problem with several more. 07 sts. Does it have to be aligned a certain way when you put the new one in? Fyi I'm a weekend warrior and never done this job before, also don't have a lift but $550 in labor for this is crazy. Wish me luck I only have this car running at the moment. Awesome video btw. Lot faster than what I was told.
yes, i been doing this work a long time, so something like a bushing becomes meanial, i couldnt believe some of the bs videos i saw on the subject, so i figured i would make a good one. and yes the bushing aligns with rubber part horizontal, like left to right,
do yourself a favor, pick up a harbor freight balljoint press, not to expensive and will make the re-install easier, also the sts has less room around the diff bein a smaller vehicle, but can be done, good luck,
IF you can bolt in urathane without extracting the old shell, I would do it, this job is not as simple as i make it look, unless u on a lift and you are a mechanic, I prefer to do it right , but it is possible to leave the old shell and go find some front end bushings that you can shove in there and it works fine, may just have to cut shave n drill a little to make them fit. good luck
@SMOKINSTINE thanks! My mechanic will use a part I provide, but of course, I do not expect him to warranty it. However, this car is 18 years old so it's lasted 18 years. In 18 years I will be almost 80, lol
IF YOU FEEL THE BANG , have someone you trust sit in the car, foot on brake, engine running, and just shift between drive and reverse a couple times, while you lay on your back next to the car and watch the rear diff, or just crawl under with nobody in car and push up on diff , it becomes obvious, really quick, but yes, i believe the AWD version has the same componants in the rear as the RWD version.
for me it is absolutly as easy as i make it look. but i go apoligize if i implied that just anyone can do the as easily. thirty five years under the hood definitly changes the way we go about things.
i did a transfer case on a cts 4 few months back, that was very easy, but cant remember the config of things toward the back? if it looks the same, I dont see why not, the only difference with any of these rags is getting access to the bushings, method for changing them is always the same,
@@MsHooper101 Thanks for the reply and informative video. I'm going to get it on ramps this weekend and take a look. I'd hate to pay hundreds just to install a $4 part. lol
its the reason i made that vid, i have seen some of the others! my favorite was the one where the guy took out the entire subframe !!! 🤣 more comming on many other vehicles, and some welding and fab stuff good luck !
JUST SO EVERYONE KNOWS! This is NOT an easy job or way to do this from jack stands and without that press thing. I had to call it and take everything apart. If i had a lift, i would do this way all day long. From my back? Never again.
Yaea no sht . this job has a shop time of 4.7 hours ! and calls for removal of the differential. but the way i do it is litterally a fraction and a major HACK ! HA HA . and..... if you look through the comments there are a few warnings. I do apoligize if i make it look overly easy, but I once saw a vid on here where the owner litterally had the entire rear sub-frame removed from under the car !! which i thought was completelty rediculas ! was mainly trying to save people from that mess with this vid, but this vid is geared more twoward a MECHANIC anyways, soooo try not to bite off more than you can chew next time, MMM K .
My question to you why you do all that work turn around put in cheap ass bushing ? Call yourself master mechanic? Get rig of that cheap ass bushing otherwise you have to redue all over again
answer, piece of crap bushing last average of TEN YEARS! unless your playing HP games and drag racing , daily driver part will outlast the REMAINING LIFESPAN OF JUNK CADDI ! so why get all complicated in trying to upgrade JUNK ?
@@haihuynh5128 You go now! You be here 4 hour, you no like job? you go fix, no watch video, you go use own mind, too many mind for you here now, you 1 mind, thinking sooooo smarty.
Thank you for posting the video. You saved me a lot of time 🙏🏽. Ok, here’s my experience and tips. I did mine today on an 07 STS base. It has the dual exhaust, so you’ll have to remove it from the rear hangers and center brace, when you do this, it will drop down out of your way. No lift, just two jack-stands as high as I could safely get them. The hardest part was removing the metal part of the bushing. An air hammer is your friend in this case. (Chisel & hammer attachments). Also, I did remove the rear drive shaft ( 3 bolts,l) mark the drive shaft alignment and the two rear differential bolts, this will allow the diff to drop down. Other than that, if you can get a rachet (cordless or air) it will make the job a lot easier. I pressed the new bushing in with a ball joint press and grease. When I got close to the end, I had to put one of the cap attachments on the back, because the bearing center will stick out. Overall, it took about 2.5 hours with a few breaks in between. Hope this helps!
Best video on TH-cam for this, every one else seems to be stripping their cars to nothing to change this bushing! Thank man great video. Even laughed a few times haha
it makes me a little sick when i think of the time people are wasting because they learned how to do an easy job the wrong way , thats why i started with this video, and I am adding many more, thanks for the feedback.
Best video I've seen of replacing this BS part for this BS differential on this BS caddi. I still like the car but I hate cranking a wrench on it. Everything is so damn tight in there... thanks for the knowledge Sir...
As additional input for others, I attempted this process last night. I lost a fair amount of time trying to stay with drop only the differential approach. Without a cutting torch (I did use a MAP gas torch to warm up the differential sleeve to ease the bushing sleeve removal), you cannot get a straight line for a body saw or recipricating saw. Note the immediate right angle of the cutting torch in the vid, a saw will not have this angle. I had to remove the drive shaft coupler to allow the front of the diff to point down at a 45 deg angle. Then a reciprocating saw made fast work of the sleeve. Having an air ratchet and a 3/8" drive 21mm six pt. socket is worth whatever price you pay for it for the rear two bolts. I did not have a 3/8" drive 21 mm socket to remove (1/2" socket too deep) but I guarantee I had one for re-assembly. Once the old sleeve was out, I could not find a direct way to get ball joint press in line. I then unhooked both mufflers (don't worry, there is a cross member in the drive tunnel that still supports them. Once unhooked, they spread a few inches more and the press had the new bushing seated in 30 seconds. The drive shaft coupler bolts are 18mm.
s0rry you had such a difficult time with this, I often forget sometimes how thrity years exp and a lift and all the right tools can simplify things for me. this should be a lesson for anyone attempting this job. also, is you re-watch, i didnt have a straight line with ball joint press as well, untill it was about halfway in, then you get the straight line, and also, if you torch wont cut ie oxy asettalene, dont bother, you will overheat and maybe melt the diff housing !!
@@MsHooper101 No worries, I appreciated the approach. I have a Bend-Pak mid rise lift so the car was at the 22" lock as I was on my back. I had the impact, long extensions and air ratchet. My air hammer did not have a chisel but Amazon should deliver tomorrow. Just glad I no longer have a "thump" when i take my foot off the gas at slower speeds...
Gotta love this... only old wrench benders will find that the humor is exactly correct. Right down to the carbide toothed squirrel...you actually made me relax because I have been putting this off for a year now...I didn't want to bpull the axel and all that crap
Thank you for a great DIY video, it is professional and entertaining. It made my job replacing the bushing on my SRX easy, except the darn squirrel was not cooperative! One tip to share with others to easily install the new bushing is to use one of the long differential bolts with the nut and a couple of large washers, position the new bushing in place and insert the long bolt through it to the other side of the mount. Install the washers and the nut on the other side and tighten it. I got the bushing half-way in there using this method and used the ball joint press to finish the job.
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the "smoke wrench" and comment about about using it 6 inches from the gas take was classic. you gotta make more videos
Omg!! Thank you for making this video!!! This is the problem I’m having with my Cadillac Escalade! Clunk clunk clunk
thankyou finally an actually good video explaining the process 😍
"Smoke torch'' . I like the name , Gona use it from now on. Thenx.
I have to do this soon on my 05 CTS, i don't have a big lift or anything either. Im not a pro mechanic or anything, but i did get this car to try and learn as much as i can, think i could do it without a big lift?
ima be honest, the cts is much harder to get to the rear diff bolts even on a lift, unless you were a pro i wouldnt even consider the attempt, but all is not lost, i would recomend, get to the bushing, scrape out whats left of the rubber , LEAVE the outer shell in place, then get a rudimentary measument of the hole and find some rubber or urathane unversal style chassis bushings and squeeze them in by what ever means, thing about rubber and urathane you can grind cut and and then to fit, maybe not a repair, but more than sufficient, if you cannot pry the diff down enough to expose the bad part without removing the two rear bolts through the frame, you might have to bight the bullet on this one an pay for the rediculas 6 hours or so that it calls for to do the job . this is no begginer operation. hope this helps anf good luck ,
@@MsHooper101 thank you lol I figured it'd be hard, but I'll try to give it a shot just to see if I can do it
ha ha guess i missed the orginal question,, a couple jackstands could position you for a hard time working on your back, but i wouldnt attempt it that way, soooooo. ? it could thorettiically happen ? 😁
@@MsHooper101 I'm still young and been lucky enough to not have to do a lot of work on my back, so if I can get any luck at all about being able to get to it, i think my back will be ok just this once
@@MsHooper101 I'll let you know how it goes though! I've made it fix whatevers wrong with this car all by my self. I've not done anything on this scale on it but imma try like hell lol
RARELY COMMENT ON VIDEOS BUT THIS WAS FUNNY LOL THANKS
thank you! more to come, eventually !
Hey they video was very helpful I was just wondering that the torque spec is for the three bolts on the differential?
tighten bolts till they break, then back them off half a turn! honestly, I dont ever look them up, after 35 yrs my torque wrench is built in. but 60-70 ft-lbs should do ya.
i just want to add, i came up with this repair after watching other ludicrous attempts at this on youtube. i have done several times since. this a srx, which has much more working room than cts, but the part and problem are the same on both. although i have not attempted this repair on cts, this fix should be possible also although a bit more difficult on cts .feedback appreciated.
Where you located? Wanna do another one?
I have this exact problem with several more. 07 sts. Does it have to be aligned a certain way when you put the new one in? Fyi I'm a weekend warrior and never done this job before, also don't have a lift but $550 in labor for this is crazy. Wish me luck I only have this car running at the moment. Awesome video btw. Lot faster than what I was told.
yes, i been doing this work a long time, so something like a bushing becomes meanial, i couldnt believe some of the bs videos i saw on the subject, so i figured i would make a good one. and yes the bushing aligns with rubber part horizontal, like left to right,
do yourself a favor, pick up a harbor freight balljoint press, not to expensive and will make the re-install easier, also the sts has less room around the diff bein a smaller vehicle, but can be done, good luck,
Hey brad if u plan to do this all u need floor jack and jack stand heavy duty
Also pick up high former bushing don't use cheap ass one
Carbide tooth squirrel where do I get one of these!!lol👍💪💯
same place you get a sense of humor i would imagine?
We raise these squirrels in our secret collapsible bunker . For $99.95 we can drop ship one but beware they get loose your nut will be history....
Another cool way to replace that annoying bushing
Wow! Wanna come here and do mine? Ok fine...so can you give me your opinion on which? OEM part or polyurethane?
IF you can bolt in urathane without extracting the old shell, I would do it, this job is not as simple as i make it look, unless u on a lift and you are a mechanic, I prefer to do it right , but it is possible to leave the old shell and go find some front end bushings that you can shove in there and it works fine, may just have to cut shave n drill a little to make them fit. good luck
@SMOKINSTINE thanks! My mechanic will use a part I provide, but of course, I do not expect him to warranty it. However, this car is 18 years old so it's lasted 18 years. In 18 years I will be almost 80, lol
So much easier that all those other videos ! Where do you stay at ? Geshhh only if you lived around Los Angeles I would take my car to you haha
Im only bout 3000 mi down the road, bring it on down.
Nuff respect general
Can this also go bad on a Cadillac cts 3.6 awd...thanks
IF YOU FEEL THE BANG , have someone you trust sit in the car, foot on brake, engine running, and just shift between drive and reverse a couple times, while you lay on your back next to the car and watch the rear diff, or just crawl under with nobody in car and push up on diff , it becomes obvious, really quick, but yes, i believe the AWD version has the same componants in the rear as the RWD version.
damn, cts, not enough room to crawl under, have a tech lift the car and check,, beware, the job calls for a lot of labor.
WTF you made it sound so easy...
for me it is absolutly as easy as i make it look. but i go apoligize if i implied that just anyone can do the as easily. thirty five years under the hood definitly changes the way we go about things.
@@MsHooper101 Keep up the great work and keep posting! It's such a thrill to see experience and master at work hand in hand.
This applies to a cadilac SRX 2009 v6 please
not 100% on from what year to what year, just look under , if the parts look the same then they are the same, picture worth a thousand words.
You think this method would work on a CTS4?
i did a transfer case on a cts 4 few months back, that was very easy, but cant remember the config of things toward the back? if it looks the same, I dont see why not, the only difference with any of these rags is getting access to the bushings, method for changing them is always the same,
@@MsHooper101 Thanks for the reply and informative video. I'm going to get it on ramps this weekend and take a look. I'd hate to pay hundreds just to install a $4 part. lol
its the reason i made that vid, i have seen some of the others! my favorite was the one where the guy took out the entire subframe !!! 🤣 more comming on many other vehicles, and some welding and fab stuff good luck !
AWESOME SAUCE
JUST SO EVERYONE KNOWS! This is NOT an easy job or way to do this from jack stands and without that press thing. I had to call it and take everything apart. If i had a lift, i would do this way all day long. From my back? Never again.
Yaea no sht . this job has a shop time of 4.7 hours ! and calls for removal of the differential. but the way i do it is litterally a fraction and a major HACK ! HA HA . and..... if you look through the comments there are a few warnings. I do apoligize if i make it look overly easy, but I once saw a vid on here where the owner litterally had the entire rear sub-frame removed from under the car !! which i thought was completelty rediculas ! was mainly trying to save people from that mess with this vid, but this vid is geared more twoward a MECHANIC anyways, soooo try not to bite off more than you can chew next time, MMM K .
Sir i have problem before that make same noise cluncker now when i shift in drive car not moving at all
sounds like the transmission pooped ! a diff mount will not fix that;
How many bushings are there 2,3?
there is three, but I have yet to see any other than the foward bushing go bad? it just wasnt strong enough for the application.
Hahaha
My question to you why you do all that work turn around put in cheap ass bushing ? Call yourself master mechanic? Get rig of that cheap ass bushing otherwise you have to redue all over again
answer, piece of crap bushing last average of TEN YEARS! unless your playing HP games and drag racing , daily driver part will outlast the REMAINING LIFESPAN OF JUNK CADDI ! so why get all complicated in trying to upgrade JUNK ?
@@MsHooper101 the factory bushing doesn't last ten yrs piece of shit cheap ass bushing
@@MsHooper101 not play hp game my point either do it fix right or not doing at all ?
@@haihuynh5128 You go now! You be here 4 hour, you no like job? you go fix, no watch video, you go use own mind, too many mind for you here now, you 1 mind, thinking sooooo smarty.
Smarter then you ? Wasted other people time