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NIJ

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S111 Spring Bushes
« on: September 28, 2011, 08:46:26 PM »
Hi.  Any advice on how to drive new road spring bushes into the chassis tubes without damaging them, please? Special tool costs megabucks. Nigel
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Re: S111 Spring Bushes
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2011, 09:07:56 PM »
Nigel,

Putting them in is much easier than taking them out. You don't drive them in you pull them in, I use two big washers and a threaded bar and just pull the bush in, if you don't have big enough washers just use the spring shackles.

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Luke
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Re: S111 Spring Bushes
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2011, 09:50:39 PM »
Thanks, Luke, most helpful.  Need to find suitable threaded bar.  Is copper ease preferable to graphite grease - I have both?  The old ones were only about 12 years old, I think, but badly worn and seized up.
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Re: S111 Spring Bushes
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2011, 09:55:42 PM »
Nigel,

I use copper ease.

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Luke
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Re: S111 Spring Bushes
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2011, 10:05:23 PM »
Thanks again, Luke.
Nigel.
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Re: S111 Spring Bushes
« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2011, 11:05:51 PM »
Pop them in a nice clean poly bag
 & put that in the freezer for several hours before you intend fitting them.

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Re: S111 Spring Bushes
« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2011, 09:20:55 AM »
Right, George, thank you.
I'll try that too.
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Re: S111 Spring Bushes
« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2011, 11:44:14 AM »
Put bush in pillar drill and sand off until it is correct interferance fit in spring eye. It only needs to be a few thou bigger than the eye.

  Some bushes you buy are O.5 mm bigger. Far too much and leads to destruction, and a bush that will neither go in or come back out again.
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