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[Jimbob]

TB watching this thread with interest

And JB

Had my rear bearing not been a bastard, I too could be nursing a lively back end  

[feeutfo]

I dont think we will need anything that sticks, we just need to ensure that the upper tapered section gets fully home!

KY!!!

Used to use hair spray on the bar grips on me Bmw. Nice and slippery when installing and set like glue fairly quick to hold em in place. All fine til it rained and found myself sat in the middle of the road with one bar grip and no bike.  

[Matchless]

I dont think we will need anything that sticks, we just need to ensure that the upper tapered section gets fully home!

KY!!!

Used to use hair spray on the bar grips on me Bmw. Nice and slippery when installing and set like glue fairly quick to hold em in place. All fine til it rained and found myself sat in the middle of the road with one bar grip and no bike.  

I heard from an accident investigator about a young lad in Cambridge who wrapped masking tape around 7/8" bars to make 1" sponge grips fit. All was OK until it rained one day and as he left college to go home he turned 90 left into a lampost, the masking tape had gone soggy and one grip slid off and was still in his (dead) hand.

[Matchless]

I didnt have much sucess trying to press-in Carlton bushes, they just wanted to pop out again. I used old fashioned green Fairy soap applied to the housing and the leading edge of the bush. Pressing them in got then to seat OK but they popped out after an hour or so, I found that walloping them in with a 2Lb ball pein seemed to work. I guess the shock unstuck the rubber from the housing and let the bush take up its correct shape wheras pressing them in just tended to bend the rubber backwards so when it relaxed the bush slid out again.
I made the mistake of trying to do this job on ramps, as soon as I undid the bolts the axle moved nearly 2" and it took ratchet straps to get it back in line. Bruises lasted over a week.

[iainb]

Not sure if this will help in this case.
 But in manufacturing when we need to fix rubber to metal we use dilute screen wash as a lubricant as its bio degradeable and wont affect the rubber long term.
Iain

[feeutfo]

I dont think we will need anything that sticks, we just need to ensure that the upper tapered section gets fully home!

KY!!!

Used to use hair spray on the bar grips on me Bmx(Edited, ment Bmx not Bmw    ) . Nice and slippery when installing and set like glue fairly quick to hold em in place. All fine til it rained and found myself sat in the middle of the road with one bar grip and no bike.  

I heard from an accident investigator about a young lad in Cambridge who wrapped masking tape around 7/8" bars to make 1" sponge grips fit. All was OK until it rained one day and as he left college to go home he turned 90 left into a lampost, the masking tape had gone soggy and one grip slid off and was still in his (dead) hand.

Edited, ment Bmx not Bmw    

[feeutfo]

anyone know what the vx dealer workshop software says about installing these? Tis is it?


scratch that, im sure you would have checked, its obviously of no use.

[feeutfo]

Had a chance yet Mark....?    Bit late in the day, but ill forget again if i leave it....

[Marks DTM Calib]

Had a chance yet Mark....?    Bit late in the day, but ill forget again if i leave it....

nope, maybe one night this week.

The TIS info is shite..

[feeutfo]

Had a chance yet Mark....?    Bit late in the day, but ill forget again if i leave it....

nope, maybe one night this week.

The TIS info is shite..

It is in deed, managed to have a peak at tis, special tool for fitting and removal, not sure how the removal tool works with the rubber still in the bush cup.(mine had come free so made removal easier with the rubber removed) if you push through to the chasis with a puller it just pulls the arm away from the body.

Any thoughts? Koz if i am to reseat mine i will have to get them out intact first. They are well in bar the last couple of mill.

Anyway, dont want to pester, i know you busy.  

[TheBoy]

Mrs TheBoy's dad made a tool for pulling bushes and reinserting them into the swing arms on the back of his Audi - simple affair with threaded rods etc.

If he's still got it (he'd probably stripped it down and reused parts!), I could possibly get a picture so you can see how to make one.

[feeutfo]

Mrs TheBoy's dad made a tool for pulling bushes and reinserting them into the swing arms on the back of his Audi - simple affair with threaded rods etc.

If he's still got it (he'd probably stripped it down and reused parts!), I could possibly get a picture so you can see how to make one.

Worth a look J,if you have time and he still has it... I have a puller as i say, and used it to pull the cup out. But it wont work with the rubber in. Have thought of bridgeing across the face of the bush so the puller centre bolt has something to push on. But ill need much bigger pullers for that to work and a big U shaped something or other to span the bush and still allow it to come out.

 Could try the claw hammer method first i suppose but i bent my metal shafted claw hammer getting the last ones out, beleive it or not.

But would be interesting either way.  

[000jonboy]

how about trying some silicone grease haven't tried it on bushes before but works well on drain pipes !

[feeutfo]

how about trying some silicone grease haven't tried it on bushes before but works well on drain pipes !

tried that (after a fight with them dry and wouldnt go in) they squidged out quicker than a bar of soap....

[stevief]

Tuppence worth only, has anyone tried soaking the bushes in hot water for a bit before installing to soften the rubber enough to allow it to relax as it goes into the seat.

Had to do this with elastomer seals at work although you had to be pretty quick to get them in before they cooled right down.

Steve