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Tips and Tricks - Removing a stuck bushing from a spring hanger

Kiko

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Cincinnati
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Oh
Have a bushing that you can't get out? No press? Pretty common scenario. Don't push it...pull it.

What can you do? You can try and make Swiss cheese out of it with a drill (dangerous). You can get a hacksaw in there and spend considerable effort cutting the thing out. Best of all, you can burn it out. But what if you don't like the smell of rubber and grease smelling up the house from the attached garage. Well, all you need is 12 to 18 inches of all thread, a pipe fitting slightly larger than that bushing (around 1 1/4 inches x 4 inches), a couple nuts and a few washers, and one sturdy piece of steel. Pretty much stuff you have laying around the garage anyway.

The all thread goes through the bushing and with a nut and a few washers on the back side. The pipe on the other side of the bushing, then the steel, and finally a couple more washers and the last nut. Impact wrench to drive the nut into the steel and that will so gently pull out that stuck bushing capturing it in the pipe.

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They are still fun to burn out if you don't mind the stink. :)
 
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