Restoration Help II
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Melting Slicks
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Restoration Help II
After prying away on the diff x-member wasnt working you guys recommended using a gear puller. Like you guys said, it came off in about 3 seconds flat.
Now i have another question for you guys. I have the rubber bushings removed from the lower control arms but I can not get the shaft out of them. It appears there is a sleeve that needs to be removed, so i sprayed them with pb blaster and tried knocking the sleeve out, i also tried heat too with no luck. Is this something im goin to need a hydraulic press for? Similarly with the trailing arms it looks like there is some sort of sleeve that i wasn't able to seporate or unscrew(i used MAPP gas and melted the rubber bushing out of the trailing arm, hope that didn't matter)? Any advice would be appreciated, Thanks in advance
Le Mans Master
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Those sleeves are part of the original bushing and have to come out. The new ones will have sleeves on them. Yes you will have to press them out. You might be able to get them out with an air hammer or chisel, be sure to properly brace/backup the arm ends so as not to bewnd them.
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Originally Posted by SIXFOOTER
Those sleeves are part of the original bushing and have to come out. The new ones will have sleeves on them. Yes you will have to press them out. You might be able to get them out with an air hammer or chisel, be sure to properly brace/backup the arm ends so as not to bewnd them.
BTW: The VIN of your car is stamped on the frame in two places. Have you found them yet?
Safety Car
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From: North Easton Mass
The shaft on the lower front arms won't come out unless you remove the shell on at least one side. If the shells and the sleeve are in good condition you can just buy the bushing (poly) and install it. If you want to replace the bushings with original rubber then you have to remove the shells. There are different ways to do this - some have used an air chisel, some press them out, I carefully sawed through the shells and collapsed them. Take a picture of the arms with the shafts in them before you take them apart. The shafts have to be in the arms when the new bushings are pressed in and the shop won't take responsibility if you put the shafts in backwards.
The new shells have to be pressed in. From experience I learned that it's better to wait until after you have the new shells pressed in to paint the arms. The shop I used to press the shells in left a lot of dings and grease on my newly painted control arms.
Rick B.
The new shells have to be pressed in. From experience I learned that it's better to wait until after you have the new shells pressed in to paint the arms. The shop I used to press the shells in left a lot of dings and grease on my newly painted control arms.
Rick B.
