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Old 03-01-2012, 09:18 AM   #38
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Originally Posted by inopsey View Post
lol at the amount of fail in this thread. anyone ever heard of a hydraulic press? im willing to bet it makes removing bushings from tight places extremely easy.
so you're just speculating or do you actually have experience?

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Originally Posted by SuperBlackS14 View Post
presses are expensive. I used one on one of my bushing's center pieces, and it was only a small one. The Subframe is large and unwieldy, I can sympathize with someone poor who can't be hauling around 100+ lbs of steel (he still has his diff, ect. in).

A press does wonders, if you use it right. After I knocked my sleeves out, I brought it to a local shop to press my new ones in. Because my press was too small and I didn't have the "proper" (read: makeshift) tool to press them in myself. Plus I was burnt out on the whole thing by then... Laziness prevailed.
I've done this a couple of times
presses aren't the best way to do this, too awkward and a PITA
there's a specific tool made for bushings (look in the FSM) that makes the job cake, THAT is the best way to do it.

I did mine (SPL solids) a few years ago by myself over a weekend
left the bushings in the freezer overnight and used a caliper pad expander with a long threaded rod and washers to pull the bushings with an impact gun.
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