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Dave, I just did a little clean up of the pocket in the k member, there is no offending metal shards or random weld flash. Also I pulled out the forward bushing that got orange peeled. The complete front bushing is present, not a bunch of pieces.Wow, that's seriously chewed up. The inner part of the bushing got pulled out from between the sleeve and control arm and twisted like an orange peel.
Where did you grease the bushing - between the sleeve and bushing, or bushing and arm? The bushing is supposed to rotate on the sleeve, so the bushing and arm rotate as one unit. The grease goes on the ouside of the sleeve / inside of the bushing.
Is the sleeve long enough? The sleeve should protrude slightly from the bushing ends, so torquing the bolt clamps the sleeve, not the bushing.
Are the areas where the bushing ends contact the body-side bracket smooth?
This looks like the sleeve may have been a bit short, and torquing the bolt caused the end of the bushing to be stuck against some sawtooth-like protusion on the mounting bracket. Every suspension movement caused the bushing to rotate and ratchet against the protrusion, which peeled the bushing out little by little. Just my guess looking at the pics.
Excuse any redundancy but I attached the instructions. As I read these, the bushing and outside surface of the sleeve get grease. I used the correct Prothane urethane grease and didn’t spare any (too much?).
The end surface of the sleeve shows some wear marks probably from rotating and maybe torque of the bolt. I did torque the all 3 LCA bolts to 129 ft lbs..