I was going sailing today, but the weather was a bit off. So I finally got to replacing the front shocks on my '72 square instead.
Got the old shocks off OK, but the metal sleeve between the bolt and the rubber stayed on the bolts. I could get the top ones off in a vice, but the lower ones are set in the trailing arm. Had a go with vice-grips but just roughed them up. Any good tricks to get these sleeves off?
the old shocks were original VW with 311 part number, must have been the originals - no wonder they're shot!
Cheers
Angus
Craig Torrens 路
heat it up and then spray WD40 onto it...........................or just use WD40, wait a couple of days and then use the vice-grips. (use the locking type vice grips) 馃憤
vw54 路
yeah as per above
good set of locking vice grips and a little heat WD 40 and a big hammer
and a friend to hold the heat gun also twisting while you hit the vice grips helps
just plain old hard labour n work to get them moving
1500S 路
Far quicker to use a cold chisel sharpened to about 60 deg inc angle so you can chisel a groove along the bush. This will expand the diameter of the bush and it should come off rather easy with a twist with multigrips or pliers.
See if you can replace them with stainless steel bushes.
DH
bajachris88 路
go spend $2 at a hardware store for a new bolt of same dimensions :P
Craig Torrens 路
bajachris88 wrote:go spend $2 at a hardware store for a new bolt of same dimensions :P
its not a bolt, its the shaft the shock slips onto on the trailing arm.
vw54 路
go spend $2 at a hardware store for a new bolt of same dimensions
make sure its a high tensile bolt and then drill the trailing arm LOL 馃槉
karmann54 路
I've tried some WD40 and some heat (my trangia bushwalking metho stove!) and the locking vice grips with no luck so far. I was thinking of getting a hacksaw blade and cutting axially along the bush, but the cold chisel does the same thing a bit easier so I might give that a try. Lucky the rubber bush on the shocky is so flogged out it doesn't matter what dags are left on the metal bush, as I still got to drive this thing to work.
Angus
MikeM 路
Heat it up with a hair drier you've borrowed from your neighbour then spray it with some inox or WD40 from an aerosol can. It has to be aerosol so the liquid is cool and gets sucked into the gap as the metal cools from the aerosol. Inox is better then WD40.
vw54 路
yeah i have had to hacksaw them as well sometimes
it just takes a bit of effort but the heat and cold spray allows better penetration
Arent they the best thing since sliced bread!!
Wind / rain / whatever - you can still get a hot feed!
We also have an Atomic cappachinno machine.
Nothing better than a cappachinno in the bush!
1500S 路
karmann54 wrote:I've tried some WD40 and some heat (my trangia bushwalking metho stove!) and the locking vice grips with no luck so far. I was thinking of getting a hacksaw blade and cutting axially along the bush, but the cold chisel does the same thing a bit easier so I might give that a try. Lucky the rubber bush on the shocky is so flogged out it doesn't matter what dags are left on the metal bush, as I still got to drive this thing to work.
Angus
Cut along the axis as I descibed a few posts above using a flat cold chisel. This spreads the bush along the axis and increases the diameter which loosens it on the stud.
DH
karmann54 路
Bizarre
I've had my trangia for 20+ years now. I remember one trip I did at uni walking about one week on Hornibrook Island off Cardwell. There were 8 of us with supposedly two trangias. Only problem was that the other guy forgot the burner for his so for a week my one trangia cooked for eight of us. We had to eat in shifts.... the pots aren't that big on them.
I'll try the cold chisel/hacksaw tonight. What started out as a half-hour job has kind of blown up a bit now.