Bushings?

[N2K]

After taking my truck through some water for the first time, the upper and lower control arm bushings plus the sway bar, I believe, are all squeaky now. I tried spraying them with lubricant and it didn't work. I want a suspension upgrade, can't afford it yet, saving up for the Camburg Long Travel Off-Road System.

My question is, what do you guys recommend for new bushings?

[2002toytundra]

Don't know on the bushings, but I would be careful getting that much water in the engine area. Water sucked through the air intake is a quick route to a new engine.

[DevinSixtySeven]

Don't worry too much, I've had my engine compartment much worse. Clean with the engine running, use Simple Green at 50% dilution, don't spray water directly at any of the electronics or fragile components (I usually spray at the underside of the hood, or spray from a distance so it's more like misting) and then drive it for 10-15 minutes or so to get any water out from the spark plug wells and other parts.

The squeaking is from the same gunk in your engine bay...it's all over the bushings now too. Use any kind of grease you want...regular black chassis grease works fine, all the way to Green Grease (buy online). It's not too hard to add grease ports to the swaybar straps, and I've added them to my 1st-gen T/C arms. Not sure if it's worth the trouble on the stock arms if you're going to replace them, all the Total Chaos arms come with grease fittings now.

-Sean