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> From: "Mark Pollan" <Mark.Pollan@MCI.Com> > Since there is so much banter about the difficulty of pressing in bushings, > particularly subframe, and since I am about to do mine I was wondering... > > Has anybody used a simple bottle jack to press these in using the weight > of the car to hold everything down? That would work OK. I had one right there and didn't think of doing it! I used the previously-posted method on the front bushings (did them last week): Use a 4" by 3/8 bolt and three 2" diameter washers. (BTW - the bolt must have threads over most of its length. I took a standard bolt with threads on the last 1.5 inches and used a die to thread the rest of the bolt shaft. The threads are required to draw the bushing tight.) The following refers to FRONT bushings only, on a 1990 200: I sprayed the whee out of the bushings with silicone, then butted them up to the bottom of the sub-frame; inserted bolt upwards thru the bushing, with nut and washers above the sub-frame. Tightened nut until bushing was drawn up into the sub-frame. When the bolt would tighten no farther (bottomed out against the body of the bushing) I pried gently upwards on the bushing (using the sway bar as a rest) and it popped in easily. On reflection, it is quite possible that the bottle jack I was using to support the sub-frame (18 inches away) would have done the same thing with less fuss. Good thought! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Al Powell, Ph.D. Voice: 409/845-2807 107 Reed McDonald Bldg. Fax: 409/862-1202 College Station, TX 77843 Http://agcomwww.tamu.edu/agcom/satellit/alpage.htm "Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun...but I have never been able to see the numbers." [From 5th/6th grade essays....]
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