Xantia lower arm bush replacement

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andmcit
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Xantia lower arm bush replacement

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Took the lower arm off in 20 minutes and got it refitted in 15 today but had a REAL battle of attrition with the damned bushes for hours and hours and hours trying to get the blasted things off/out of the arm and putting the new one's back on isn't pretty either - Is there a knack to doing these?

And it didn't seem to make any difference or influence things leaving the drop link alone untouched - the only saving grace after checking and IGNORING it being mentioned in the BOL!!

I don't have a plasma/oxy torch to melt the bloody things out with but the idea does appeal to me :evil:

Are there clever dodges of actually REMOVING these blighters!! Go ahead make my day, I've got to do the other side tomorrer!!

Andrew
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hairdryer? or maybe blowtorch?
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Post by AndersDK »

Drill a hole large enough to get a hacksaw blade through the rubber. Then patiently cut the rubber free. Slow and easy does it. You KNOW it will come out - be patient.

New bush is fitted using standard grease in the control arm. Heat the rubber to some 60degC - just barely NOT scalding you - to make it softer. Then press in the rubber bush using wood as memberpieces in a large vice.
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AndersDK wrote:Drill a hole large enough to get a hacksaw blade through the rubber. Then patiently cut the rubber free. Slow and easy does it. You KNOW it will come out - be patient.

New bush is fitted using standard grease in the control arm. Heat the rubber to some 60degC - just barely NOT scalding you - to make it softer. Then press in the rubber bush using wood as memberpieces in a large vice.
Hi Anders, thanks! :D

I've used the hacksaw approach carefully today but still managed to cut into the arm which annoyed me a tad! Interesting idea to heat the rubber - I use boiled water help heat up and pop on awkward hoses and bump stops etc but I didn't want to heat and thus expand the metal insets in the rubber bushes...

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Post by bxbodger »

Is there a knack to doing these?
Yes- take the arm and new bushes down to the local engineers where they'll charge you about a tenner and do it in 5 minutes :!:

- thats the trick I learned after years back spending all afternoon and finally breaking a big vice wrestling with Skoda Rapide kingpin bushes.........
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Post by Stewart(oily) »

I cut the old ones off with a grinder, terrible smell of burning rubber, then pressed/hammered the new ones on, remember to mark where the brackets go :)
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