Nope, no tricks here. I used a heavy hydraulic shop press (100 ton) here at work and had no problems in getting it in on one side. On the other side, I took it to my local alignment shop and they did it in like 15 minutes. I honestly believe that to be your best bet as they are going to have the proper tools and know-how to press in those one peice bushings. The $20 that I spent there saved me a little bit of worry as the first one I was shaking in my boots seeing the maintenance mechanic where I work press that bushing in. In fact that same mechanic and I were pressing out one of the endlink bushings and we snapped it. The socket got cock-eyed and went off track when we were using the press. These guys I work with are not to be deterred so in about 3 hours I had a new end link made out of aluminum and finished my endlink job the next day. You'll be impressed with yourself when you start this job because you'll be thinking what have I done but in no time you'll have the job finished and be thinking what was I waiting for. I did all of my own work up til those top one peice bushings. Don't trim anything on any of the bushings!. They were made to fit our applications and they DO go in the way they were suppose to. The guy previous might have got his in but could have trouble down the road. The old bushings had the lip and so do the new ones...must be a reason why they are there. Not hacking on anyone, just giving my own opinion. Good luck!!!! If you have anymore questions let me know.tdr1919 said:
Good grief, I didn't say I trimmed the ENTIRE lip off...just a few thousanths. I don't care how much pressure was applied to it...IT DIDN'T FIT. You have to realize this is a high-volume manufacturing environment...the tolerances are probably larger than you care to know about, nothing is exact. Of course the lip is there for a reason, the control arm would slide back-and-forth if there were no lip on the inside end of the bushing.goldeneye_vet said:
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