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 68beetle
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| posted on January 12th, 2006 at 04:16 PM |
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Torsion Arm/Tube bushings - removal
Hi,
Giving the beetle a pretty complete overhaul and am looking to install urethane bushings into the front torsion tubes instead of the existing needle
bearings.
However. It seems a little difficult to remove the old roller bearings. Any tips on how to do this?
If it all seems too hard I'll leave the existing ones in.
Cheers,
Tim.
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| posted on January 12th, 2006 at 04:20 PM |
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Unless you are doing some serious offroading leave the stock bearings in.
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| posted on January 12th, 2006 at 05:38 PM |
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After I cut it
http://www.vwdcqinc.org.au/vwdcqimages/insideafrontaxle/insideafrontaxle.html
............the bearing just fell out :-)
I have used a puller, but a slide hammer would work
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| posted on January 13th, 2006 at 06:44 AM |
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You can drive them out from the opposite side or use a circle of metal and slide hammer the bearing out
after the circle(with a nut welded to it) is inserted behind.
You will have to cut the sides off the circle to get it behind the bearing.
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posted by westi
That's mad Alan.
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| posted on January 16th, 2006 at 10:56 AM |
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Thanks Dave,
It's these simple things that my brain just really struggles with at times - I've never done any kind of "metalwork" so this simple operation will
hopefully open this mind of mine up a bit...
The beetle's getting the revamp to undertake charity rallies so I want it to be pretty beefy and hopefully last 8-10,000 back road kilometres. I also
want to learn this stuff for future cars so I'm trying to find a good way to do things the first time.
Cheers.
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