Shaheenis wrote:Jared those rear bushes sound like a biatch. I am not sure I mentioned it but when Fulcrum did mine one of the rear bushes (they called it 'Toe Arm') had siezed to the arm and they couldn't press it out with the 10 tonne press. In the end they squished the bush holder out of round and had to cut the old bush out and repair the arm so it would receive and hold the bush properly. The labour was bloody dear but I am glad I didn't attempt it myself without another daily.
Yeah I did see a mention of that. The Toe arms are the lower rears that you can see when standing behind the car.
I did have some trouble getting the inner ones out too as the outer shells on the originals were so thin that they could actually stretch if what you were pressing them with was even slightly too small. Took me a good hour to get them out, but it was nothing compared to getting the upper arms back together. The bushes for the outside of the lower arms are actually part of the knuckle assembly, these were relatively easy, though I couldn't use the press. Due to space restrictions with the knuckle, I had to use the threaded rods with nuts instead in my bush removal kit and a socket from my half inch socket set as the bush removal cups don't go small enough, which was also part of the issue removing the inner bushes.
On a side note, I'm surprised a bunch of pros only had a 10 ton press, the one I just bought was only $450 was 20 ton & it's the premium type with the large ram & a pressure gauge. The most I saw pressing out all of my Bushes was about 7 tonnes.