I love KZfaq and people like this man. You can do everything by yourself - hundreds of ideas shared here!

I tried heating with a torch but what really worked well was to place the control arm in a bed of hot coals from our fire pit. This made the rubber nice and soft and it just pushed out by hand easily.

I just got a ball joint press set and an extra matching set of attachments, I don't know why everyone doesn't do this for all types of bushings. It's just as good as a hydraulic press, and it's very versatile with all of the collars. And it's better than advice.

Here's an easier way light them on fire, tap them out with a socket and malet and press them on with a vice.

I have a set to remove bearings. The problem was, that the hole of the bushing is to small to fit the bar. But after using ur method, I could use the set and remove the rest of the bushing . THXs

i used a little propane torch to heat the old rubber bushings. I installed prothane bushings on my 350z a few years ago and only used the grease they supply. Haven't heard a squeak from them so I used the same grease this time as well. Now I'm replacing every bushing on my g35 so i did all fronts, rears next. Used a prothane kit because its cheaper than energy suspension by about half. Installed whiteline bushings on my buddies g35 in the compression arm and the whiteline, energy and prothane bushings all seem to be of equal quality. I would use the prothane supplied grease simply because i have like 4 years and 20-30k miles on the old 350z and they've been silent so I have faith in it. Kits come with quite a bit, probably enough, but I really used alot so I paid $10 for a tub of it so i have plenty. I also used it on some door hinges on my crown vic that have been replaced a while back but would still get to squeaking eventually. Thin layer of that stuff fixed that, but of course ull get dirt sticking to that grease now so ill just wipe that off occasionally, haven't had to re grease and its not collected as much dirt as i expected it would.

Thanks for the video man! I was stuck this morning with my chassis side frt control arm bushings but you gave me the brilliant idea to use a Sawzall. Cheers

This method works! Stubborn 4th gen grand caravan, very difficult! 👍

Was thinking a hacksaw might be better the great idea thanks for the idea

Great video, brother, very helpful! 🎉

Yes! I thought of doing pretty much this including the jigsaw, but couldn't figure out cutting the rubber most efficiently. The holesaw is genius! You're right that burning rubber is poison, might run a drill bit through it a bunch of times first to help with that. Great video

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This is awesome thanks ….

Does this work with those small bushings for motorcycles with the metal around them?I have 6 i have to do and getting the metal ring part out is the problem cause the metal looks all smashed and fused into the swingarm metal,any help?

Ultimate Tip: Use Teflon Tape and the included poly grease when installing polyurethane bushings. It will never squeak for the life of the bushings. Never ever use petroleum based grease on polyurethane bushings. All grease are not made equal.

Peace and Love Man...killer technique for a diy guy like myself. Thank you kindly for informing us and displaying your knowledge. Stay dirty..

I like this hack because I can avoid using my torches. $300 to fill both tanks! I'm working on a 74 international pickup. Thanks the tips!

cool vise!

Great tip! Thanks

Get 'er done!

I drilled some holes on the rubber (to weaken it) and then twisted hard the inner sleve with a large pipe wrench and then pressed it out. I'm having a hard time removing the outer collar, it looks like I touched the control arm and I'm using a hand saw :-(

Thanks bud

The bushings you installed had no metal? Otherwise, use a press kit from auto parts store?

you were able to remove the part completely and place it a vice to remove it. This doesn't work when the part is still attached to the car, I'm still struggling to take out the metal sleeve.

When are you bringing this beauty back?

so... do it without press set... BUT!!! instead you will need: big bench vice, powerful drill with special tip and jigsaw!!! Or... go to auto parts store or home depot or similar stores and rent the press set.

You may clean the housing before installing new ones

I just use my oxy torch (outside very smokey) to do the same,this may be a better way though

Use dawn dish soap with some water for cutting oil on rubber!

Use some lube, it won’t heat up so much. Calms the smell down as well.

If you are like me and have to bodge everything , ha ha , you can also simply drill out = some of us don't even have a vice = so what you can do is hope ur mate or neighbour has a van and jack the bush in-between blocks of wood and using the van as the press lol

Claw puller!?

No reason to extract the rubber bushing first.

with the amount of power tool he is using on this video without a press. He would easily buy one and cut the time of this repair "Time = $$ Profit"

Ain't no way u didn't cut into the control arm!! I literally saw the cut u made into thew arm past the bushings ...that's a bad bad idea....just use a heavy duty punch and a big hammer ..wouldn't have hurt the arm At all

Don't breathe that in lol

Awesome video, just a quick request: (please don't show super closeups of your face) I am sure all girls will love it, but the reality is that your audience is 'men', and none of us want some dude up against our face, I am sure you don't. Just a suggestion, otherwise I would have given a thumbs up.

Be a little futher back from the camera.