Peter,Peter,Peter,
Perhaps it's due to my long-standing contractual relationship with the
Devil, (...and please, in the future, do Capitalize references to Him...if
you don't it really pisses him off...there, you are forewarned!) but the
method I described has always worked for me.
Then again, my semi-retired mind may have it wrong...perhaps it was "cut the
outer steel sleeve", but alas... no, I said it right the first time,
(actually I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken), cut the inner
sleeve through to the rubber and then apply the air chisel to the bushing at
the cut...angled slightly toward the frame...as the round-punch chisel-point
slides through the cut, the sleeve curls inward, pulling away from the
rubber, outer sleeve and frame...at some point part way through, the
vibration and pressure of the air chisel overcomes the adhesive forces of
time & corrosion, and the outer sleeve is released from the frame. (Of
course, should my method as described above fail you, then I suggest you
carefully cut the remaining outer sleeve also, being careful not to cut the
frame, and then simply proceed with the same tools and methodology.)
I believe I have some recently removed bushings I can snap pics of which
will prove my point.
Honest, trust me (...which we all know is Yiddish for "F-U"), it works. ;->
JT/ric
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I'm puzzling over your description of removing the frame bushings. Your
saying cut the small inner sleeve, that the bolt goes through. Then you can
drive out the entire bushing, outer sleeve, the one welded to the frame by
corrosion, by using a punch tool in the rubber. This sounds a bit too easy,
almost blasphemous devil's work. I haven't tried an air chizel on an uncut
outer bush but can't see how applying the tool to the rubber would have any
effect on outer bush. It would seem the rubber would absorb the blows of
the chizel on one hand. On the other, most of my frame bushes haven't had
the rubber attached to the inner and/or outer sleeve so the rubber just
falls out. Could you try and clear up my incomprehension of your method.
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