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Torana front end bushing ,how to replace?
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:54 am
by Rusty EK
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
Any suggestions
Re: Torana front end bushing ,how to replace?
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 6:39 pm
by fb delivery
pressed is best
Rob
Re: Torana front end bushing ,how to replace?
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 7:22 pm
by Rusty EK
Hmm , thought that might be the case
Re: Torana front end bushing ,how to replace?
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:08 pm
by Mick
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
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
Re: Torana front end bushing ,how to replace?
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:54 pm
by Rusty EK
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
Re: Torana front end bushing ,how to replace?
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:50 am
by Rusty EK
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