hints on pressing out bushings?

[Marc Swanson]

Hello all,

I just picked up a 20 ton shop press so I could work on my bushing project
for my 4ktq (I got a spare set of subframes that I'm pressing out the
bushings/powdercoating (red!!)/and rebush it), and in trying to press out
the bushings today I ran into some snags.  I'm finding it really difficult
to brace the frames in such a way that everything is level and I get a good
solid shot at the bushing... Nevermind the fact that doing the control arms
seems next to impossible:  it looks like I can only press the bushing out
one way and the arm tries to hit the bottle jack when I do that.  The best I
could do was to tear out the center of the rubber leaving the metal sleeve
behind...  Has anybody done this themselves with any form of success?  What
did you do to jig up each piece?


Thanks!


-Marc-



/* +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+Marc Swanson                          +
+                                      +
+http://marcswanson.ne.mediaone.net    +
+                                      +
+87 4kcstq                             +
+85 4ksq  "the spare"                  +
+87 5ktq   donor (Parting out)         +
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ */