I refurbished my wishbones with new rear bushes, ball-joints and poly fronts about 4 years ago. Replacing the rear bushes was an easy job in the press, but it's too small to do the fronts. So I spent ages cutting the old ones out. I know the guide reckons that's doable on the car, but there is no way I'd do it like that.
Now the rears are knackered again, and I'm not too keen on the ball-joints so I bought a new pair of wishbones(plus droplinks and tie-rods). I'm going to reuse the poly bushes, which means removing the existing ones.
I'd hoped to use my bearing puller set:
but the sleeve is too big a diameter to fit on the wishbone.
So I machined a corrector to help:
This was from a 25mm thick 'washer' which I picked up somewhere. Unfortunately, it turned out to be some awful work hardening stainless, so it took bleedin' ages to enlarge the central hole to 60mm!
A drive piece is needed for the other end, so I repurposed an existing tool:
Assemble with some studding and a couple of nuts:
A few seconds with an impact wrench and a spanner
Now, with this tooling, I
would be prepared to do this job without removing the wishbones from the car!