Bushing swap with a $5 tool, no fire needed.
#41
EO2K came by today and we swapped the bushings in my control arms.
No chance of bending the control arm this way. It's a 1.5" diameter pipe nipple with a stack of(4) fender washers on the pipe nipple side and some regular washers on the bushing side. With my harbor freight electric impact wrench it took 20 seconds or less to push out each bushing once the tool was set up. We found that spraying a little kroil under the lip of the rubber bushing helped them to come out easier.
Honestly this was an easy job to do this way and not being afraid of bending the control arms is a win!
No chance of bending the control arm this way. It's a 1.5" diameter pipe nipple with a stack of(4) fender washers on the pipe nipple side and some regular washers on the bushing side. With my harbor freight electric impact wrench it took 20 seconds or less to push out each bushing once the tool was set up. We found that spraying a little kroil under the lip of the rubber bushing helped them to come out easier.
Honestly this was an easy job to do this way and not being afraid of bending the control arms is a win!
#42
I used the harbor freight ball joint tool and a ratchet with no vice and was able to remove all of my bushings, including the NB steering rack. I also used a 3-jaw puller (from the HF four three jaw puller set), two of the HF ball joint tool pieces, and a ratchet to remove the OEM diff bushings, and to remove poly bushings. Worked great.
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I would've never believed that it was that easy.
No power tools, less than 5 minutes per bushing. Although, it'd prolly be better to use a sleeve and just thread the rod through only 1 bushing at a time.
No power tools, less than 5 minutes per bushing. Although, it'd prolly be better to use a sleeve and just thread the rod through only 1 bushing at a time.
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Oh. That.
That's the one I used when we aligned my car at your place, don't you remember? (Perhaps not, 'cause you share like a miser!)
Seriously, dude, do you sit at the computer all day? You've just joined both this and m.net, and already you have some 5,000+ posts. What do you do?
That's the one I used when we aligned my car at your place, don't you remember? (Perhaps not, 'cause you share like a miser!)
Seriously, dude, do you sit at the computer all day? You've just joined both this and m.net, and already you have some 5,000+ posts. What do you do?
#54
I used a couple of 3 jaw pullers from HF. No drama, no fire needed. One of the pullers lasted about 3/4 of the job before the threads seized, so plan on tossing it . Buy the kit so you have two. Used threaded rod and washers to pull the steel liner into the bush on the rear upper outer (top of the knuckle). On the rear did one arm at a time, so didn’t have to remove the knuckle or the axle shaft at all. A regular c clamp, or a big pair of channel locks, to push the steel bushings in the rest with the arm in the bench vice.
Bought a nice bottle of bourbon with some of the money I was going to spend on a press 😎
Bought a nice bottle of bourbon with some of the money I was going to spend on a press 😎
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