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Re: Perished Wishbone Bushes........Symptoms? - Connor - 04-04-2012
Changing the p bushes are easy... wishbone off, cut the rubber to get the metal part off, then cut some of the remaining rubber off to get to the metal sleeve, then take a hacksaw to the sleeve, once you're almost through, smash it off with a hammer and chisel (or any chisel substitute) clean up the surface of the wishbone, smidge of grease then tap the new pbush onto the wishbone with a hammer
Re: Perished Wishbone Bushes........Symptoms? - Mattcheese31 - 04-04-2012
Connor Wrote:Changing the p bushes are easy... wishbone off, cut the rubber to get the metal part off, then cut some of the remaining rubber off to get to the metal sleeve, then take a hacksaw to the sleeve, once you're almost through, smash it off with a hammer and chisel (or any chisel substitute) clean up the surface of the wishbone, smidge of grease then tap the new pbush onto the wishbone with a hammeryes that's it . . . . . . . .
Re: Perished Wishbone Bushes........Symptoms? - Connor - 04-04-2012
What's so hard about that?
Re: Perished Wishbone Bushes........Symptoms? - Mattcheese31 - 04-04-2012
Connor Wrote:What's so hard about that?Conner do you know Tom in the slightest at all? . . . . .
and it's not that easy mate in truth it can be a proper bitch imo . .
Re: Perished Wishbone Bushes........Symptoms? - Connor - 04-04-2012
Im sure tom can use a hammer and hacksaw lol
Re: Perished Wishbone Bushes........Symptoms? - Mattcheese31 - 04-04-2012
Connor Wrote:Im sure tom can use a hammer and hacksaw lolmine were real old mate and that metal sleeve was real difficult to get off, how the fcuk you gonna hacksaw that? . .
Re: Perished Wishbone Bushes........Symptoms? - Connor - 04-04-2012
You cut a slit down the length of it, and when you're just about through, split the slit with a chisel
Re: Perished Wishbone Bushes........Symptoms? - Mattcheese31 - 04-04-2012
Connor Wrote:You cut a slit down the length of it, and when you're just about through, split the slit with a chiseli heated it up then chiselled it off . .. . . .wasn't easy . . . . .
Re: Perished Wishbone Bushes........Symptoms? - Connor - 04-04-2012
Then you should have used a hacksaw, much easier lol
Re: Perished Wishbone Bushes........Symptoms? - Toms306 - 04-04-2012
Thanks for the support Mr cheese!
Anyway, there's no longer a wobble!
. Couldn't find much play and wasn't sure how much was normal but persuaded him to have them done anyway. Took us a couple of hours all in and wasn't too hard afterall (whole wishbone changed). Doesn't even need tracking done again as I thought it would so surprisingly I fixed something without failing for once.
Re: Perished Wishbone Bushes........Symptoms? - Mattcheese31 - 04-04-2012
Toms306 Wrote:Thanks for the support Mr cheese!wasn't having a go Tom . . . . .i just found it a bit of a coont and i had full garage equipment on hand . .
Anyway, there's no longer a wobble!
. . . .changing the wishbone is a piss though eh?
Re: Perished Wishbone Bushes........Symptoms? - samass - 05-04-2012
i ground my p bushes off, then got stuck on the round wones, then went back to gsf and bought complete 'bones
Re: Perished Wishbone Bushes........Symptoms? - Connor - 05-04-2012
The front ones are a bitch to get out, had to get them out though to fit my powerflex bushes lol
Re: Perished Wishbone Bushes........Symptoms? - samass - 05-04-2012
how did you manage it? i want poweflex on mine at some point, so am gunna have to face it...
Re: Perished Wishbone Bushes........Symptoms? - Connor - 05-04-2012
Alot of swearing, smashing my hand with a hammer and more swearing
Re: Perished Wishbone Bushes........Symptoms? - Toms306 - 05-04-2012
Mattcheese31 Wrote:Toms306 Wrote:Thanks for the support Mr cheese!wasn't having a go Tom . . . . .i just found it a bit of a coont and i had full garage equipment on hand . .
Anyway, there's no longer a wobble!
Nah its alright, I knew what you meant lol.
And yep, wishbone was nice and easy.
Re: Perished Wishbone Bushes........Symptoms? - Rippthrough - 05-04-2012
Mine are easy to get out, one 19mm and I just unscrew them
Re: Perished Wishbone Bushes........Symptoms? - CJ_Derv - 27-04-2012
Powerflex do P bushes now too and they are made with slight offset hole for wishbone to eliminate problems when lowered
and also as always lifetime guarantee. I had similar problem and it was both hubs fubarred changed ball joints and still sloppy turned out hubs were elongated (spelling :/) CJ
Re: Perished Wishbone Bushes........Symptoms? - Poodle - 02-05-2012
For the front onesd, burn out the old rubber with a blow torch, the central sleeve will melt itself out as you do this. Then get a hacksaw and carefully cut the outer sleeve as deep as you dare, will need to assemble hacksaw with blade inside arm obviously and also cut at an angle otherwise you won't get more than an inch or so cutting movement. Hammer and chisel to open the partial cut and fold the sleeve in on itself, then should come out pretty easy with a couple of whacks on the inside edge.
Re: Perished Wishbone Bushes........Symptoms? - devils_fuel - 03-05-2012
Connor and I changed both p bushes and wheelbearing on my car last sat...easy-peasy
Take out the arm, cut the rubber bush out and then hacksaw the remaining shaft off the arm (don't cut in to the arm), then bang on the new bush using an old bush to hit it on square..the beatch was getting the bolts through the bush/anti roll bar again!
They cost me £9 each side from GSF
Edit - read tractors first post, that's what we did!
Connor - your guide would come in handy now