Upper bushes how do i get them out.. please help its late

[iain]

Its saturday night nad after 2 hours of hitting, tapping etc my bushes are still in. I have read how you get them out but not HOW you get them out. Do you use a drift around the edges? Use a socket and hit it. If so how do you get enough purshase. The nabours are pa@@ed as it getting late so please help. I have use Wikis advice regarding cutting the down.

MAny thanks

IAin

[CycloneMike]

Ian, if you have done this or it is obvious I'm sorry but
Check for tack welds holding them in, then grind them off.
Support them properly, Find a lump hammer and belt them hard, don't P155 about tapping them or hitting them
Try heating the wishbone (use gas hob at home) first, to loosen them up. Heating them again later mayl also help getting the new ones in, cos they're a tight fit.
If you have a large engineers vice? and a large socket or piece of thick wall tube use the vice to press them out. If not go back to plan A and keep hitting them or as its late so resort to beer.
I did mine a few weeks ago, once they start to move they'll fall out.
Good luck.
Mike.

[iain]

Thanks for that reply.
Welds off and the bush cut off by a bout 2cm nearly down to the casing on the wishbone.

I am having trouble working out how to get enough downward pressure to knock it out with a hammer as there is only 25cm of gap between the two bushes in the wish bone. Do you use a drift trough the opposite bush? Or attack it from an angle?

Thanks

Iain

[CycloneMike]

Good to see you are getting an early start!
I used a long extension bar from a old half inch socket set as a drift. I wouldn't use a good one, because you could damage the ends, but mine was cheep and twisted anyway.
I used a 2lb hammer then hit it repeatedly from as straight an angle as possible till it gave in.
No finesse just force!

[rugchucker]

My big 7lb persuader is called finesse and objects to being left out of a giving a good hammering to a BUSH.
With a long shaft it normally gives satisfaction.

Equal opportunities with brute force!!!!

[iain]

Job done (at 9.20am) 3/8 socket that ran into the middle of the bush. Mounted the wishbone on a vice and then an old 12 inch 1/2 inch drive extension bar through the other bush. A 2 pound hammer and after a bit of jiggering and lots of finesse it came out... the satisfying noise of metal on the floor. One thing i did notice was that if it started to come out on the skew it was easier to knock it back in and start again as lots of hammering made no difference.

Now to replace all the brake pipes. The joy of a type 25

Many thanks for the help

IAin

[VWCamperfan]

Remember to spot-weld the bush back in place, if you havn't done it yet!

[Simon Baxter]

Grind the weld off, open vice a tad, drop bush through gap in vice and 3 good whacks with number 3 will see them rolling around on the floor.

[T'Onion]

Grind the weld off, open vice a tad, drop bush through gap in vice and 3 good whacks with number 3 will see them rolling around on the floor.

or just book it in to baxters and have it done .... believe me i know ,, and yes simon i'm still kicking me sen

[iain]

Its a long way to huddersfield from Bournemouth!

No 3 hammer is that 3 pounds or a size of hammer? Either way my 2 pound took about 15 whacks

Iain

[Simon Baxter]

Its a long way to huddersfield from Bournemouth!

No 3 hammer is that 3 pounds or a size of hammer? Either way my 2 pound took about 15 whacks

Iain

Big girl.