Graham Howard Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 I decided to renew all the suspension bushes this winter. Having found a few posts about this I wasn't expecting it to be too easy. Job is now done but I would not have been able to complete it without some help from a friend with a 10 ton press and a lathe. I just wanted to share this as a warning to anybody contemplating the same job. The first plan was to use some studding and some suitably shaped mandrels to push out the bushes. This worked on the first one but i ended up stripping the threads on the second bush I tried. So I then enlisted some help and made use of a 10 ton press with some pieces turned up in a lathe as shown below. Most of them came out with a loud bang, not an easy job even with the press. One of the lower front wishbone bushes was particularly troublesome because the bore in the suspension arm had some weld in it which had distorted the bush. Putting the new bushes in was easy with the press. Somebody clever is now going to tell me how it should have been done. I don't know if my bushes were particularly tight. Assembling the parts back on the car will be a piece of cake. Graham Edited by - Graham Howard on 14 Jan 2014 17:47:23 Edited by - Graham Howard on 14 Jan 2014 17:48:01 Edited by - Graham Howard on 14 Jan 2014 17:51:39 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2GBR Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Just a shame that the welding deformation within the bush housing is not reamed away on the first assembly I made a bench press up with a 12 tonne bottle jack two 1" thick steel plates, 1" threaded rod and dies made from turned down sockets works well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jingars Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Links to pics now revised by OP, so duplicate pics now deleted Edited by - jingars on 14 Jan 2014 20:12:36 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Domus Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 A blast from the past In the early '90s I used to be (for my sins) the assembly shop supervisor at Fluidair Compressors. Looks like either a 47 or 67. Happy days 😬 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Howard Posted January 14, 2014 Author Share Posted January 14, 2014 Thanks Jingars, Links now corrected I hope. I did remove the weld deformation before inserting the new bush. Graham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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