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| posted on March 9th, 2008 at 12:05 PM |
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Replacing front shock-absorbers
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!
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| posted on March 9th, 2008 at 03:33 PM |
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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) 
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| posted on March 9th, 2008 at 06:20 PM |
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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
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| posted on March 9th, 2008 at 06:55 PM |
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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
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| posted on March 9th, 2008 at 07:03 PM |
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go spend $2 at a hardware store for a new bolt of same dimensions :P
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| posted on March 9th, 2008 at 07:16 PM |
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posted by bajachris88
go spend $2 at a hardware store for a new bolt of same dimensions :P
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its not a bolt, its the shaft the shock slips onto on the trailing arm.
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| posted on March 10th, 2008 at 06:41 AM |
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go spend $2 at a hardware store for a new bolt of same dimensions
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make sure its a high tensile bolt and then drill the trailing arm LOL 
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| posted on March 10th, 2008 at 09:40 AM |
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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
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| posted on March 10th, 2008 at 10:04 AM |
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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.
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| posted on March 10th, 2008 at 10:52 AM |
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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
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| posted on March 10th, 2008 at 11:40 AM |
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posted by karmann54
(my trangia bushwalking metho stove!)
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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!
Futue te ipsum!!!
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| posted on March 10th, 2008 at 01:09 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by karmann54
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
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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
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| posted on March 10th, 2008 at 02:15 PM |
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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.
Angus
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