Fitting Guides

REMOVAL GUIDE

POWERFLEX bushings are designed, in general, to be installed by hand by a home mechanic with no special tools. However it is not always possible to remove the old bushings without some hand tools. The following tips will help you to remove the old bushings if they are not simply a push out bushing.

1. A blow torch may be necessary to burn the old rubber bushing out of the arm
2. Using a tube, a socket and a vice it is often easy to remove an old bushing like this.
3. Some bushings have a metal outer sleeve which will always need to be removed. Push or burn out the old rubber, the outer sleeve is then clear to see (top left picture), then cut the metal outer sleeve along its length with a hacksaw.
Cut until the saw blade becomes tight. This means you have cut through the outer sleeve and the tension has clamped the blade.
4. Bushings with a flange can be chiseled out.
5. Some more difficult bushings can be removed by drilling through the outer sleeve.	Left picture - drill through the outer sleeve to cut it and relieve the tension Center picture - cut only the outer sleeve Right picture - bush will now be easy to cut out