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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?

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I'll ask him indoors, when he's indoors... Trying to remember what he did before he had a press....

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Cheers hun :D

 

Suffice to say 'hit it with a lump hammer, lots' didnt work today. :LOL:

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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 :biglol:

 

Can't be certain! :LOL:

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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.

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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

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Thats pretty much exactly what I did to get the old ones out... the issue is getting the new ones in ;)

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Thats pretty much exactly what I did to get the old ones out... the issue is getting the new ones in ;)

 

Which bushes?

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Nope, and the axle is still on the car :$

 

I was thinking maybe a g-clamp might work...

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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.

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No dear. Universal puller. Special tool made to the car specs.

 

Get the bloody axle off, lazy

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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 :LOL: If I cant get it sorted it will be scrapped.

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erm... possibly?

 

the one with the... erm... this one...

 

Ford_Fiesta_MK4_front_20070926.jpg

 

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.

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These ones - a57yh1.jpg

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... :Confused:

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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 :|

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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 :|

:pointlaugh:

 

you gave in!

 

wuss!!!!

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