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[Abiton]

Yes you can buy seperately.

vauxhall dealers

a big metal work vice to press them in will do

Have you tried!

Try a 10 tonne press!

Indeed. You haven't got a prayer without a decent press.

Can be done with a bit of M12 studding and some blocks with suitable bits cut out to miss the central parts of the bushes, so I don't see why a really big vice couldn't work, with similar blocks.



No praying was required, just plenty of grease, elbow and normal. 

[feeutfo]

Ime it takes just over a Ton to press the rears in.

[Agemo]

My rear bushes went in with just a vice, perhaps I was just lucky. (For a change) 

[YZ250]

My rear bushes went in with just a vice, perhaps I was just lucky. (For a change) 

A few guys on ABS have had success with a decent vice and appropriate socket.    Up to the individual if they want to have a go I suppose.

Regards
Alan

[feeutfo]

Re being lucky....

Possibly, I managed to belt a front bush in with a hammer, once. 
The other took 11 tons. 

It's quite easy to buckle the outside edge of the rearward bush on a press.

[feeutfo]

Another way of checking bush play, car parked, place a foot on top of the wheel under the wheel arch and push it for and aft. If the road wheel flops back and forth, buggered bushes.

[feeutfo]

Another way of checking bush play, car parked, place a foot on top of the wheel under the wheel arch and push it for and aft. If the road wheel flops back and forth, buggered bushes.

similar action to driving over a small 1 inch high down in a kerb, like an entrance to a drive way, or when braking. Both will see the wheel move for and aft.

[TheBoy]

Saw a car today with a rattle, new drop links fitted, but shot bushes. So fitted Polly, found one of the front wishbone bolts little more than finger tight. That 'll be the rattle then! 

Beats me how those bolts ever come loose.

Errr, uhmmm, well, errr....

 

[TheBoy]

Yes you can buy seperately.

vauxhall dealers

a big metal work vice to press them in will do

Have you tried!

Try a 10 tonne press!

Indeed. You haven't got a prayer without a decent press.

Can be done with a bit of M12 studding and some blocks with suitable bits cut out to miss the central parts of the bushes, so I don't see why a really big vice couldn't work, with similar blocks.



No praying was required, just plenty of grease, elbow and normal. 

Rear bush tends to need 1-2t max to press out.  Front often needs 10t.

Pressing in seems to need much less, so maybe there is scope for cutting old bushes out, then using vice etc to press in.  Still need the drifts though, and must go in perfectly straight.