Re: trailing arm bushing removal

[AKress1948@domain.elided]

Pressing these bushings out and in w/ the factory tools - or w/ carefully 
selected home built equivalents is the best and fastest way to do it.  
however, reality does intervene - and the further north you are, the sooner 
it does.  Up here in the land of salt, pressing these bushings out is a dodgy 
affair with a fairly low sucess rate.  The older the arm, the less likely the 
bushing is to press out.  Using the correct factory tools - I have seen the 
top brace on a 12 ton press bend - by the way - the bushing never moved.  I 
have seen the tubes the bushings slide into, distort to oval section, and of 
course the ever popular and common destruction of the tube by scoring of the 
walls as the bushing does finally push out.  All in all a fairly ugly 
situtaion.  If i ever have to do it now, i give the press a good honest try.  
If it seems like a no go - cease and desist, and get out the hacksaw.
andy
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