Torana front end bushing ,how to replace?

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Torana front end bushing ,how to replace?

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G,day all

Am on to pulling the front end apart , so how do I get all these bushes out ??

Can I just heat up around them with any oxy set and then tap them out or do I have to take them somewhere and get them pressed out ?

Have been putting it off ,but the time has come :cry: Any suggestions
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Hmm , thought that might be the case
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not sure on the torana ones but seen a guy do HQ ones today (lower arms off car) old ones out new ones in, in less than five minutes both arms including ball joints :shock: he just sat them on a vice and belted the old ones out and the new ones in only tools were vice, hammer and a thing so as not to damage the bottom of the balljoint
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Had another look at them , they are a bit rusted in but I might try and heat the outside and give them a whack and see what happens , hate paying somebody else for something I can do myself .

Let you know how I go 2moz :roll:
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Had a go at them last night , tried the vice and hammer first , those suckers didn't move , maybe if I soaked them in some crc for a while first might have loosened them up or if they wasn't so rusty they might have came out .

Heated the side of the arms around them with the oxy to expand and then back to the vice and gave them a few more hits and they came out , eventually .

Took me about an hour to do both bottom arms , on to the top ones tonight
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