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Old Oct 25, 2007 | 05:00 PM
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im tryin to remove the bushes out of my bottom arm! i've beaten the crap out em all day today... and there still in!
Anyone know anyway of getting em out? there standard bushes, i got poly bushes to go back in.....
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Old Oct 25, 2007 | 05:41 PM
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are you talkin inner or outer tca bushes , saph ??
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Old Oct 25, 2007 | 06:06 PM
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yeah 2wd saph.. its the rear arms im having trouble with! both sets of bushes...
its done my nut in all day..
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Old Oct 25, 2007 | 07:00 PM
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if there what im thinking off its a round bush with a metal cylinder in the middle , i havent removed that bush yet , but my style is to just drill the shit out of the bush its self untill it becomes loose enough to bang throu
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Old Oct 25, 2007 | 09:15 PM
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Mate you will be fucking lucky to bang these out i had my arms off the car using a big vice and a couple of sockets either side still could not budge them had to have them pressed out in the end ,if there still on the car you could try using some threaded rod a couple of nuts a socket that will pull the bush through Good luck
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Old Oct 25, 2007 | 10:26 PM
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I removed the trailing arm bushes at work. Heated them up with the gas bottles and then pressed them out with the press. Even with this they were very tight coming out!


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Burn them
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Old Oct 26, 2007 | 03:19 PM
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Burn them
Burning wont really help, they need heating up.
The bushes are a metal tube with a rose joint inside so the tube/bush needs pressing out.

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Old Oct 26, 2007 | 03:21 PM
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right... so today, i brought out the big guns... i've tried burning em! (that was fun!!lol) smashing fuck out em, and then tried drilling em!
and the little fuckers still havent moved.
going to the local engineers mon, see if i can get em pressed out.

cheers for the replys guys..
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