Re: Cannot remove rear bushings? (archive)

Using the K-mac kit is a snap. You do have to remove one of the pitman arm nuts, their's only one nut anyway, to adjust the outer bushing. But thats not a big hassle.
As I said I completely melted the old bushing. The heat did not help at all. I heated the mount while using the supplied removal tool and a gear puller all to no avail. It never budged.

If so, then it seems the difficulty is in removing the bushing, not using the K-Mac kit!

Did you try heat to remove the bushing and use sockets or something to push out the old bushing? Even on much older cars, it's usually not that difficult...

Ed Surtees
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I just finished doing the rears this week. Removal of the trailing arms is very straight forward. For me the hardest part of the job was finding a machine shop to remove the old bushings. I'm not sure exactly why but after 4 shops I found one that told me that I might try to burn the rubber off and then use a chesiel to remove the outer metal casing. After 2+hours I gave up and took it back to the shop where 2 hours and $60 later I had no more bushings. Installation of the bushings is a snap, in fact I was a little concearned at the easy at which the bushings went into the mounts, considering the task of removing the originals but after thinking about it I realized that the bushings must rotate easily within the mount or else the whole point in them being adjustable is lost. I have yet to test the new bushings although I can see the difference in the tire(less negative camber). Here is a site which gives good advice on adjustments for the rear.
If any questions feel free to write.

Marc

Anyone have any details/thoughts on this? Got a set that I'm going to be putting on in the spring...

Pete

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