Help installing rear bushes

[jevansio]

I figured I'd have a bash at fitting the R2 rear bushes. Started on the strut rod. Rod cam off easy enough, pressed the bush out of the rod, but the bush that is in the hub is a right PITA.

 

I've managed to pull out the inner sleeve & the rubber, but now I'm left with the outer steel sleeve which needs removing before I can put the new bush in.

 

Any idea's bar removing the entire hub and getting it pressed out.

 

Or have I gone totally up the wrong tree & that isn't a bush you replace?

 

ta

[Andy Blyth]

Get a couple of sockets:

 

1 with an outer diameter roughly equal to or less than the outer diameter of the outer sleeve of the bush.

 

1 with an inner diameter greater than the outer diameter of the sleeve.

 

Grab some threaded rod, washers and nuts and apply like so:

 

 

Wind the nuts on to pop the bush out.

[hemmjonny]

I had to cut slits in mine to get them out

[jevansio]

Get a couple of sockets:

 

1 with an outer diameter roughly equal to or less than the outer diameter of the outer sleeve of the bush.

 

1 with an inner diameter greater than the outer diameter of the sleeve.

 

Grab some threaded rod, washers and nuts and apply like so:

 

http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/attachment.php?attachmentid=119310&stc=1&d=1287935570

 

Wind the nuts on to pop the bush out.

Cheers Andy, that's how I got one of them out, it's just the one in the axle carrier is in solid

 

I had to cut slits in mine to get them out

Cheers mate, so did I

 

Well thats taken about 6-7 hours to replace the bushes in 1 arm .

[jevansio]

Also, when removing 2 of the other arms they are connected to the axle carrier with a ball joint. Do you need any SST to undo the nut? What stops the ball joint bolt spinning when you are removing/installing it?

[Andy Blyth]

Getting the nut off is the easy bit. The ball joint won't rotate - it's an interference fit in the carrier.

[hodge]

It's the same as removing the gear shifter bushes Jay.

Get a drill with a grinding bit on and start grinding into the steel bush. Eventually it will snag and free the bush.

I've got a grinding bit you'll need if you want to borrow it.

[jevansio]

Getting the nut off is the easy bit. The ball joint won't rotate - it's an interference fit in the carrier.

Cheers, I'm guessing there is a hard bit then? I noticed there was an SST for removing the arm from the axle carrier?

 

It's the same as removing the gear shifter bushes Jay.

Get a drill with a grinding bit on and start grinding into the steel bush. Eventually it will snag and free the bush.

I've got a grinding bit you'll need if you want to borrow it.

It's all sorted now bud, I cut a slit in it and prized it out

[hodge]

Hammer and crowbar then jay lol.

[jevansio]

Hammer and crowbar then jay lol.

it crossed my mind

[TTRickeh]

To remove/refit the ball joints to/from the hub I used a G clamp to press the joint and the hub together so that the ball joint thread couldn't turn once you get a spanner on it. I'd be careful not to tighten the clamp too much though.