Radius arm bushes - removable with 12 tonne shop press?

[twr7cx]

Anyone able to advise is a 12 tonne shop press is large enough for removing the bushes on the radius arms (front and back)?

[Tombie]

Depends how stuck they are!!!

[weeds]

all depends......if it doesn't grab a hacksaw

[mattims]

have done defender ones with a 6 tonne press (supercheap auto model) required some heat and also had to cut rubber out and split the shell of the bush on the last one that refused to move.

[tommo1166]

Did my D2 ones with a Supercheap 6 tonne one, just, needed a new jack for it afterwards. It wasn't much problem for original bushes but castor correction bushes were much tighter.

[twr7cx]

Cheers. Gives me enough confidence to give it a go. If I have a few that want to fight I'll deal with them. Have Superpro bushes to fit in as the replacements.

[John_D4]

Yes. Although my chassis bushes were stuck so I figured they didn’t need replacing. The 4 axle bushes came out and pressed in new ones easily. I used some pie off cut from the steel yard to press mine
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[AllTerr]

Cheers. Gives me enough confidence to give it a go. If I have a few that want to fight I'll deal with them. Have Superpro bushes to fit in as the replacements.Let me know how you go... Doing mine soon with a 12 tonne.

[JoeFriend]

Did all bushes on mine with no press at all.

Just heated it up with a butane torch to smash the inner out, then hacksaw to the outer edge and hammer it out. Simple as!

Put superpro back in, just a vice.

[twr7cx]

Did all bushes on mine with no press at all.

Just heated it up with a butane torch to smash the inner out, then hacksaw to the outer edge and hammer it out. Simple as!

Yes, I have done that before. An older Pajero had the front lower control arm rear bush mounted into the chassis so no way of putting it into a big press. But I'm not a fan of it over pressing out, it exposes you to toxins when burning, hacksaw risks scratching/damaging the cylinder that the bush sits into. It's just unnecessarily labour and roughness when theirs quicker and neater way to achieve.



Put superpro back in, just a vice.

I've got Superpro replacements here so they'll be the easy bit...

[Tombie]

Did all bushes on mine with no press at all.

Just heated it up with a butane torch to smash the inner out, then hacksaw to the outer edge and hammer it out. Simple as!

Put superpro back in, just a vice.

I stopped doing that stuff when I stopped being..... young!

Can’t be stuffed doing **** like that when I can have my workshop set up to make life easy [emoji6]

[twr7cx]

Finally got around to this this afternoon. Have done 1/4 so far. The two diff bushes pop out easy enough but the chassis mount one makes you work. All over easily doable in the small 12 tonne press.

[Red90]

IME, only around half of them come out with a 20 tonne press. Putting them in is no problem.

[rick130]

IME, only around half of them come out with a 20 tonne press. Putting them in is no problem.Ditto.

I've near maxed out a 50t press on one shell on Deefer.

[twr7cx]

I must have gotten lucky then. So far I've done the drivers side front and both rears. The radius arm to diff bushes push out very easily and the radius arm to chassis bushes push out but make some noise on their way out!

[Blknight.aus]

Ditto.

I've near maxed out a 50t press on one shell on Deefer.

I have....

oxy heat got it in the end.

[Red90]

When the press does not do it, I push out the rubber and cut the shell with a hacksaw. It only takes a few more minutes.

[FisherX]

I use an air hammer to get mine out. I get the forked chisel and jam it under the outer steel section of the bush, a couple of blats on the trigger and again 180 degrees on the other side of the bush and out she pops. Just don't damage the arm where the bush presses in.

[John_D4]

I did mine with my 12 ton press. Although the rear diff chassis bushes wouldn’t budge. They still looked ok and weren’t falling out like the others so I left them in place.

[wobblygts]

To save time making another thread, what's the best replacement bush? Rubber or the Super Pro ones as we always replaced radius arm bushes in Patrols with rubber only as Urethane was harsher and chopped out quickly. TIA.

[Gordie]

To save time making another thread, what's the best replacement bush? Rubber or the Super Pro ones as we always replaced radius arm bushes in Patrols with rubber only as Urethane was harsher and chopped out quickly. TIA.If you do a search on here, you will find many and varied opinions on which to go with. After a bit of reading, and looking at price, I went rubber and are thus far happy with them.

[rick130]

To save time making another thread, what's the best replacement bush? Rubber or the Super Pro ones as we always replaced radius arm bushes in Patrols with rubber only as Urethane was harsher and chopped out quickly. TIA.

Super Pro are nice and soft and often a better choice for a classic style coil suspension Land Rover as their design is better, eg. lower rear trailing arm to chassis bush.
For a D2 I'd probably stick to genuine as they are so nicely designed.
Land Rover's QC seems sadly lacking in their genuine classic bush's over the last few years too.