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si_berry
14-01-12, 21:53
I want to swap out the worn rear control arm bushings to polyurethane ones I have there. How are people removing them and what's the handiest? Burning them out then hammer and chizel?

Thanks in advance.
git
14-01-12, 22:10
two black cats with the fuses tied together light it and leg it !!
Robbie Daly Ps13
14-01-12, 22:13
Cutting torch ftw....
si_berry
14-01-12, 22:59
two black cats with the fuses tied together light it and leg it !!

hahaha your some can of piss :) I'm saving the black cats for the subframe bushings!


Cutting torch ftw....

Don't have a cutting torch Robbie.

I'll go at them again in the morning
Boguey001
15-01-12, 01:31
burn or drill lad, choice is yours, drilling just takes more effort though.
si_berry
15-01-12, 22:15
Removing them was grand, drilled the rubber then put the hacksaw blade through the metal liner.. grand.

Now putting the new urethane ones in... I started on the lower control arms.. that bushing is not going to fit in there!!! Lubed the shit out of it and tried to push it in with the vice. Not a chance, there's like a lip on the bushing.. FFS!
skinnynphats200
15-01-12, 22:23
Try harder :-)
Diesel-Dick
15-01-12, 23:21
Removing them was grand, drilled the rubber then put the hacksaw blade through the metal liner.. grand.

Now putting the new urethane ones in... I started on the lower control arms.. that bushing is not going to fit in there!!! Lubed the shit out of it and tried to push it in with the vice. Not a chance, there's like a lip on the bushing.. FFS!

haha polys are a cunt, i broke my vice tryna put sum into wishbones before! :D

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si_berry
15-01-12, 23:36
haha polys are a cunt, i broke my vice tryna put sum into wishbones before! :D

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/252882_208007635901372_100000764115155_510639_5720 702_n.jpg

The vice i'm using is half the size of your one. How'd you get them in in the end?
Diesel-Dick
15-01-12, 23:59
The vice i'm using is half the size of your one. How'd you get them in in the end?

30 tonne press, and even with that it was a mission :( think i even went at the wishbone with die grinder and took some the lip off the bushin!!! twas wisbone bushes on a bora!
si_berry
16-01-12, 00:12
30 tonne press, and even with that it was a mission :( think i even went at the wishbone with die grinder and took some the lip off the bushin!!! twas wisbone bushes on a bora!

With the lip that's on them, not a chance they're gna go in. I might take a bit of the lip and try again.

The bushings on the knuckles will be more crack, I have a press in the garage.. but the knuckles are just awkward and won't fit.

Sure tomorrows another day!
niallf18
16-01-12, 00:13
press is the only way 2 get poly bushings in without damanging them