Planning on getting around to changing the inner control arm bushes (with rubber ones).
The old ones came out easy enough (including hte outer metal sleave).
Is there a trick to fitting the new ones?
Do you need a press? (or does one make it easier?).
Cheers
Newt
vlad01 ·
2 sockets large enough to fit over the rubber but small enough to not fit over the metal part obviously.
tap them in a little with the socket and hammer. Place the sockets on each bush and compress in a vise. It will drive both bushes at the same time.
can't fit both at the same time? you can do 1 at a time with a block of wood on the opposite side to prevent damage to the metal of the trailing arm.
you can also use a press if you have one.
vwo60 ·
you can use dish washing liquid as a lubricant.
Newt ·
Thanks Guys
Was straight forward - job done.
Newt
psimitar ·
vwo60 wrote:you can use dish washing liquid as a lubricant.
bar of hand sopa or hair shampoo is better as doesn't contain salt. Just for the rust conscious 🙂
vwo60 ·
Worked for years for me with no issues.
vlad01 ·
psimitar wrote:
vwo60 wrote:you can use dish washing liquid as a lubricant.
bar of hand sopa or hair shampoo is better as doesn't contain salt. Just for the rust conscious 🙂
can't say shampoo doesn't contain acid. thats shit burns yours eyes like pepper spray.
68AutoBug ·
I don't think there is salt in any shampoo
but if You read the ingredients . it has a bit pf everything else in it..
and most the words are impossible to spell..
but its all chemicals unless You get a natural shampoo..
and even then a lot of chemicals added..
Maybe biodegradable washing up detergent.. may be better..
anyway, they are all very slippery..
I thought that powder was used to lubricate anything rubber but that may be before people had shampoo etc... lol
LEE
matberry ·
Glycerine for lubricating rubber, natural, will not hurt the metal ur the rubber and it's what the factory used to instal window seals......
vlad01 ·
why this talk of lubes when the bushes have a metal shell?
I just press them in. if it need lube then I use moly grease to help press the metal shell in but that is only when I am installing coke can sized press fit metal shelled bushes that require several ton of pressure to drive them in.