Troublesome bushing removal - Pirate4x4.Com : 4x4 and Off-Road Forum

IFSisTROUBLE · 12-27-2001, 12:35 PM

I am replacing all my bushing on my truck with polyurethane ones and I am having alot of trouble getting the lower control arm bushings out. I have tried almost everything got one out in about an hour! I don't have a hydraulic press and I don't want to remove the control arm. Do they make a special tool for this? I have been using a c-clamp to act like a press but its a pain. Will the upper control arm bushings, rear leaf spring and shackle bushings be just as hard to remove?

nuclearlemon · 12-27-2001, 01:48 PM

torch!!! burn baby burn

IFSisTROUBLE · 12-27-2001, 01:51 PM

I was thinking of doing that but if I torched them out wouldn't that weaken the metal? I can't imagine the smell. When I drill around them it smells bad can't imagine catching them on fire. yuck! Is anyone against torching them?

RockReadyXJ · 01-04-2002, 04:38 PM

burn them out and if there is a metal sleeve around them use a sawzall or hacksaw to cut the sleeve and pull it out. the heat Won't hurt the metal at all

12-27-2001, 12:35 PM	#1 (permalink)
IFSisTROUBLE Registered User Join Date: Dec 2001 Member # 8589 Posts: 19	Troublesome bushing removal I am replacing all my bushing on my truck with polyurethane ones and I am having alot of trouble getting the lower control arm bushings out. I have tried almost everything got one out in about an hour! I don't have a hydraulic press and I don't want to remove the control arm. Do they make a special tool for this? I have been using a c-clamp to act like a press but its a pain. Will the upper control arm bushings, rear leaf spring and shackle bushings be just as hard to remove?

12-27-2001, 01:48 PM	#2 (permalink)
nuclearlemon Registered User Join Date: Sep 2000 Member # 1650 Location: communist city, colorado Posts: 1,831	torch!!! burn baby burn __________________ "Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid sideways in a cloud of dust, flopping into the hole totally worn out, shouting ..."holy shit...what a ride!"

01-04-2002, 04:38 PM	#4 (permalink)
RockReadyXJ Registered User Join Date: Dec 2000 Member # 2536 Location: goodyear, AZ Posts: 320	burn them out and if there is a metal sleeve around them use a sawzall or hacksaw to cut the sleeve and pull it out. the heat Won't hurt the metal at all __________________ 89 yj stretched 10 inches daily driver

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12-27-2001, 01:51 PM	#3 (permalink)
IFSisTROUBLE Registered User Join Date: Dec 2001 Member # 8589 Posts: 19	I was thinking of doing that but if I torched them out wouldn't that weaken the metal? I can't imagine the smell. When I drill around them it smells bad can't imagine catching them on fire. yuck! Is anyone against torching them?