markcro Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 This morning I pushed out the original leaf spring eye bushes- what came out was the rubber bush with the metal insert. My question is: there is a metal sleeve in the spring eye- is this part of the bush and should be also removed? Or is it part of the spring and is meant to stay?I left it in place and pushed in my new poly bushes. The poly bush extends out about 2cm past the eye now...... I so pissed off with bloody bushes now that I am temped to cut it off with a sharp blade! At this rate the car won't be back on the road until next summer!! 😆 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6 M Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Yes the bush has an inner AND, an outer steel sleeve.and there a good chance if it niva been oot since car was new,then its rusted its self to the loopm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markcro Posted June 14, 2015 Author Share Posted June 14, 2015 Thanks M,That would expalin why the poly bush distorts so much! Thanks, you have relieved some of my frustration! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
npanne Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Tried doing mine last week - despite using an air saw to cut through inner, rubber and outer, the things are still stuck fast - kinda made my mind up to change the spring, which is looking past its best anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6 M Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 generally it can be shifted by having a good taper punch, BUTT, the end needs to be needle sharp, this so it can get ..between.. the two bitand the taper will split the 2, some good hard waks, with it weel supportedkeep wak,n till its gone all the way thru.then can slit it,with a shafp chisel, or it may just pap oot freely wid a bigg driftbefoer fitting anything new in there, clean oot, de rust, an lube upM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markcro Posted June 14, 2015 Author Share Posted June 14, 2015 Yep tried one side tonight and it is stuck fast! So will try giving your method a go. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markcro Posted June 18, 2015 Author Share Posted June 18, 2015 Last night, just before 1am, I got the bast'id out! Patience, junior hacksaw blade, two screw drivers and a small pry bar and sore hands eventually got it out! Now just for the other side! 😎 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
npanne Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Have you been going at at all this time? Crikey, it must have been stuck fast! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markcro Posted June 19, 2015 Author Share Posted June 19, 2015 Quoted from npanne Have you been going at at all this time? Crikey, it must have been stuck fast! Between madness at work, a baby and a dog, I've been grabbing an hour here and there to work on it. So it's painfully slow going! 😲But yeah, it was near welded in there! I tried pushing out with the threaded bar method and ended up just stripping the threads off the bar. Bent a screw driver. Heated the eye up with a blow torch. Still no good. So ended up slowly cutting it out by hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Mackay Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Yeah I used a simlar technique to get mine out. Lots of swearing and stabbing with pointy things. Done now though. Not looking forward to ever having to do that again. I did by a recip saw to help eventually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markcro Posted June 20, 2015 Author Share Posted June 20, 2015 I got the other side done this morning and it all bolted back up! It was like slowly breaking out of prison- slowly cutting with a bare hacksaw blade and cursing alot! A few blisters on my thumb and a slightly bent screwdriver and we were done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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