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Re: Message for Neil - trailing arm pictures (archive)
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Posted by Neil Deshpande on March 10, 2002 at 17:35:18:

In Reply to: Message for Neil - trailing arm pictures posted by ian M635 UK on March 10, 2002 at 10:16:01:

Ian:

The link is attached to this mail. Please let me know your experience.

After I did it this way, a friend of mine who is a much more skilled wrench than I used an Oxy-MAPP torch to heat the bushing and simple pulled it out with channel-locks (pliers) quite easily. He said that the amount of heat required and applied to the inner tube was so small that the paint on the STA was unaffected.

Reinstallation of the bushings under load is ESSENTIAL. Make damn sure the subframe tabs are not so tight that they prevent the bushing from turning when you lower the car. Bounce it around a bit to 'make assurance doubly sure' (as Lady MacBeth said).

Regards,

Neil Deshpande
http://www.neilwerke.com

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Neil

Some months ago you posted a link to your site to show how to remove trailing arm bushes.

Can you provide again please?

I have the back end in bits and will be replacing the following.

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