Want to lubricate my Hotchkis sway bar bushings

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    I think there were instructions when I got them? I had them installed.

    Anyone still have that instruction sheet with pictures on it that they could scan?

    What do I have to do to grease them? I seem to remember one end is easy and the other end isn't so easy. I'm sort of remembering that one end you just screw in the zerks and grease. The other end you have to remove brackets covering the bushings?
    I'm assuming I can do it in the drive way with a jack and stands?
    I assume I'll need to install zerk fittings?
    Silicone based grease? Any particular silicone based grease?
     
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    Thanks Tam,

    haha, that would be "Ken in California's LX tech 'n' tune" :usflag:

    Thanks for the pdf but I found that one. It looks like the rears have the 90* zerk fittings on them but I think maybe the fronts don't. I'm sort of remembering that maybe you have to remove the subframe mount brackets holding the front bushings to get to them. Then I'm not sure if you slide them to the side, grease and slide them back? or something like that.

    Did you participate/watch? or were you sipping mint julips with his better half in the air conditioning.
     
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    I was keeping Madeline entertained. :baby: She wouldn't let me out of her sight without freaking out. It only took the guys half an hour but they have Ken's lift and they'd done at least a dozen swaybar swaps by that time.

    I wasn't sure whether I had the zerk fittings, so following Rick and other's advice here I asked for them from Hotchkis when I ordered the silicone. When Steve and co got under the car, they realized my set up already had zerk fittings installed. So it went a lot faster than initially anticipated.