jhc 28 Report post Posted October 28, 2011 Any tips? I'm currently figuring a bit of threaded bar, some nuts, washers and a metal plate with a hole in it will do the trick, but is there an easier way? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anjenha 44 Report post Posted October 28, 2011 I'll ask him indoors, when he's indoors... Trying to remember what he did before he had a press.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jhc 28 Report post Posted October 28, 2011 Cheers hun Suffice to say 'hit it with a lump hammer, lots' didnt work today. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anjenha 44 Report post Posted October 28, 2011 I think he used to use an iron bar and a hammer...place the end of the bar on the bush and hit the other end Can't be certain! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jhc 28 Report post Posted October 28, 2011 nope, wont work with this one... the mounting hole is ever so slightly flat... about 0.001mm off round, so if you try to hit it with things it just pivots out. It needs steady even pressure. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anjenha 44 Report post Posted October 28, 2011 Himself reckons that without a press the best thing to do is.... Cut out the inner metal sleeve (or burn it, destroy it etc) Get a blade and remove as much rubber as you can Undo a hacksaw blade, pit it through the hole you've created, reattach to hacksaw and use to collapse the outer sleeve Job jobbed, eventually He doesn't even press them put with a press really.... Not often apparently Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jhc 28 Report post Posted October 28, 2011 Thats pretty much exactly what I did to get the old ones out... the issue is getting the new ones in Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Smaky 73 Report post Posted October 28, 2011 Thats pretty much exactly what I did to get the old ones out... the issue is getting the new ones in Which bushes? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anjenha 44 Report post Posted October 28, 2011 Bwahaha sorry Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anjenha 44 Report post Posted October 28, 2011 Do you have a vice? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jhc 28 Report post Posted October 28, 2011 Nope, and the axle is still on the car I was thinking maybe a g-clamp might work... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jhc 28 Report post Posted October 28, 2011 Thats pretty much exactly what I did to get the old ones out... the issue is getting the new ones in Which bushes? The big fuckers on a solid rear beam that attach to the chassis. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anjenha 44 Report post Posted October 28, 2011 No dear. Universal puller. Special tool made to the car specs. Get the bloody axle off, lazy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jhc 28 Report post Posted October 28, 2011 Not an option... all the bits holding the struts on are rusted/seized, including the top mounts. And bugger buying a specialist tool! Its a £150 fiesta If I cant get it sorted it will be scrapped. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anjenha 44 Report post Posted October 28, 2011 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jhc 28 Report post Posted October 28, 2011 Its not mine Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Smaky 73 Report post Posted October 28, 2011 You mean trailing arms??? Mk 3 fiesta? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jhc 28 Report post Posted October 28, 2011 erm... possibly? the one with the... erm... this one... Mark 4. Its the first car with a solid rear beam I've touched... there's the big bar across the back attached to the chassis, then bars going at right angles from there to the hub/struts. I'm doing the bushes at the ends of the big bar. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jhc 28 Report post Posted October 29, 2011 These ones - But on a solid beam. The make and model of the car makes no odds really... they're all the same. I just want to know if putting a threaded bar through the bush, a plate with a hole in it over the other end of the hole, a combination of nuts and washers on the bar then tightening them up will squeeze it in??? I think it will work, I cant see why it wouldnt work... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Smaky 73 Report post Posted October 29, 2011 It would but normally I drop the axle on those and use the BFH. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jhc 28 Report post Posted November 2, 2011 Even the RBFH wouldnt have worked on these bad boys. I eventually gave in with bodged threaded bar presses, clamps and hammers and dropped the axle. Took it into my local friendly garage and got them to use their press for a fiver. It took 5 tons of pressure to get them in Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anjenha 44 Report post Posted November 2, 2011 Even the RBFH wouldnt have worked on these bad boys. I eventually gave in with bodged threaded bar presses, clamps and hammers and dropped the axle. Took it into my local friendly garage and got them to use their press for a fiver. It took 5 tons of pressure to get them in you gave in! wuss!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites