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Old 15th April 2022, 06:46   #21
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I think just a bit more than dressing the cast on the arm ...
Rob,

My replacement bushes (from X-Part) slid easily over the original suspension arm (on the bench).

Why are you renewing both your arms?

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Old 15th April 2022, 08:01   #22
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My replacement bushes (from X-Part) slid easily over the original suspension arm (on the bench).

Why are you renewing both your arms?

Simon
Mot failure on the arms so thought to do the bushes at the same time
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Old 15th April 2022, 17:41   #23
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Tried various methods and gave up - looked here on the forum and a kind poster mentioned washing up liquid - literally pushed the bush on by hand which I was relieved about because I was concerned about it being pre-stressed if it wasn't aligned exactly.

Which would have of course caused premature failure
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Mot failure on the arms ...
Both at the same time? That's unusual. Did they fail on the outer balljoint?

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Tried various methods and gave up - looked here on the forum and a kind poster mentioned washing up liquid - literally pushed the bush on by hand which I was relieved about because I was concerned about it being pre-stressed if it wasn't aligned exactly.

Which would have of course caused premature failure

Had this trouble last year it was my third arm and by far the tightest bush yet, i mangled the first bush trying to force it on and had to rig up a press to do it gently and right the second time using a oil filter socket as a slip ring as shown in photo below.



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Had this trouble last year it was my third arm and by far the tightest bush yet, i mangled the first bush trying to force it on and had to rig up a press to do it gently and right the second time using a oil filter socket as a slip ring as shown in photo below.



NEVER,NEVER,NEVER.

By hand ONLY. --Your method is a recipe for disaster--
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Had this trouble last year it was my third arm and by far the tightest bush yet, i mangled the first bush trying to force it on and had to rig up a press to do it gently and right the second time using a oil filter socket as a slip ring as shown in photo below.



This was my go to, till I found out the old bottle jack was low on oil
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Old 17th April 2022, 12:45   #28
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This was my go to, till I found out the old bottle jack was low on oil

I found the jack had to be a certain way around to work, upside down no good, i think the internal holes expect the jack to be sat upright. Have a play with the jack would be my suggestion to see which orientation it will work. Also make sure the oil filter socket matches the inner ring of the bush exactly i think i used a 32mm and use loads of fairy lube.
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NEVER,NEVER,NEVER.

By hand ONLY. --Your method is a recipe for disaster--

Those are oem rimmer parts, i moaned at rimmers as this was the only way i could get it done and they sent aa second bush at there cost because the first bush was recked trying to use less force to push it on by hand as i have done several times before with success.. If done correctly this way works its been on a good while without issue but it has to be well lubed and precision required. The oil socket should fit exactly on the inner slip ring of the bush and fit over the arm then no stress on bush rubbers, any other way it will wreck.

Perhaps a filing down of the arm might have helped but surely oem parts shouldnt need to be filed to the right size, if they do they are out of spec?

If i ever get the current arm split from the subframe i might have to do this again later or tomorow, will be interesting to see how it fits.
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Those are oem rimmer parts, i moaned at rimmers as this was the only way i could get it done and they sent aa second bush at there cost because the first bush was recked trying to use less force to push it on by hand as i have done several times before with success.. If done correctly this way works its been on a good while without issue but it has to be well lubed and precision required. The oil socket should fit exactly on the inner slip ring of the bush and fit over the arm then no stress on bush rubbers, any other way it will wreck.

Perhaps a filing down of the arm might have helped but surely oem parts shouldn't need to be filed to the right size, if they do they are out of spec?

If i ever get the current arm split from the sub-frame i might have to do this again later or tomorrow, will be interesting to see how it fits.
They are supposed to be OEM parts but very rarely are. The bush must never be a tight fit on the arm. This WILL destroy it.
The ONLY way is to carefully reduce the arm size.

As I said in a previous post early failures were blamed on the bushes when they were actually on the road to disaster from the word go by poor fitting.

Use a jack=shooting yourself in the foot.----

It will simply introduce a problem that will NOT solve itself.

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