hints on pressing out bushings?

[Marc Swanson]

> A very big socket under the subframe big enough to receive the bushing?
> I think we borrowed a cup from the Schley wheel bearing tool for
> 5k subframe bushings.  It can take a couple of people to wrestle the
> subframe into place...

Good excuse for me to go get a socket to do my axle nut too.. I think that
would be about the right size.  Or.. I could just go borrow some of Huw's
sockets...



> There are a couple of ways of doing this.  If the bed of the press is
> thin enough or has a wide enough gap, you can put the a-arm with one
> leg below the bed of the press, the other leg rests on a socket of
> the size required to push the bushing out and you use a socket big
> enough to receive the bushing to push the arm down.

yeah.. I think the best way to do it would be to put it BELOW the press
bench but the problem there is that the metal is "folded" over the lip on
that side so I'm forced to do it in the reverse direction.  The bed of my
press is fairly thick so I can't have one side on top and the other on
bottom with the piece flush with the table.  I'm sure I'll figure SOMETHING
out..


> Alternatively, you can build a tool for it... Sean Upchurch
> made one out of a couple of strips of steel, some bolts and some
> 2x4s...   The strips of steel go parallel, pieces of 2x4
> at the top and bottom and a space in the middle for the other
> leg of the control arm.  He may have a steel plate at the top too,
> I don't remember, but it is definitely a 2x4 end on a socket at the
> bottom that presses the bushing out.  (If this tool doesn't have
> a steel strip built in across the top, we have some pieces of steel
> that we use to distribute the load...)


Ahhhh.. I see!  This way you could have the press bench set waaay down do
you can have the control arm in its own little jig above the bench all lined
up nicely.  I may just try to weld something like this together...

Thanks!


-Marc-

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