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MG MGA - rear spring front bushing

what is the trick to getting old perished-but-rusted-in-place bushings out? One side has surrendered with me having to cut a slot in the outer sleeve, but the other side is proving harder to persuade.....it won't move under any pressure or hammering or torching.....
Dominic Clancy

Pencil grinder?
Art Pearse

Usually the hacksaw cut does the job, have you cut this second one - If you've got the spring out , it would pump out in a press easily
William Revit

I can't get the rubber to separate from the outer sleeve enough to get a blade in, so I will take the spring to mechanic who does my normal car and ask him to press it out.
Dominic Clancy

Maybe grind the back of the blade down to fit in, then use handle hack saw or use a mini hacksaw
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Mike
Mike Ellsmore

Take the spring outside and burn the rubber.
Dirk Van Ussel

Some bushing material(silicone rubbers) is highly carcinogenic if you breath the smoke or touch the burnt residue
I usually use a circle saw (aerial hole cutter)in from each side to cut the rubber out then hacksaw cut the sleeve if i'm not near a press

willy
William Revit

Or you can use a small drill and drill out the rubber. I like Willy's idea best though
Art Pearse

The local Fiat garage pressed it out for me. It took one ton pressure to break it free!
Dominic Clancy

Good stuff Dominic--Nothing like the cracking sound of something stuck coming loose--that winning feeling is hard to beat
William Revit

You can get around 1 tonne clamping force with a bench vice.
Mike
Mike Ellsmore

Mike
I tried the vice way, but found I was moving the workbench when leaning on the lever. Sometimes a press is the only way, and I have looked at them many times but just don't have the space. Now I am running down activities, I won't be buying anything new on the tools front. I think this will be the last big project as it is really leaving me exhausted after a four hour stretch.

My Fiat mechanic didn't want paying, but I had expected that, and had taken a bottle of Australian wine from Clancy's which made him laugh. He will always be helpful because I treat him right!

Dominic Clancy

To close off, the new bushes pressed in with the bench vice, and all is now reassembled


Dominic Clancy

https://clancysofconargo.wixsite.com/clancys-of-conargo
How’s your tractor restoration skills, Dominic?
Mike Ellsmore

Tractors is where I started TE50 aka little grey fergy.....

I had no idea that there were more vineyards in the extended family....

https://www.peterlehmannwines.com/wine/2016-clancys-red-blend/

But there is a common thread, IH cars used the same Holley 1904 carb as an MGA Judson supercharger!
Dominic Clancy

This thread was discussed between 15/07/2020 and 19/07/2020

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