Removign rear subframe..How've people done it?

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jaistanley
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Post Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:00 am

Hi.

After removing all of the rear suspension, diff and trailing arms I expected the rear beam to come off with 'a bit of a downward shove'. Unfortunately it looks like the aluminium inserts in the old bushes are catching on the threaded section of the bolts.

How have people removed their beams ( :wink: ) ?

Is there somewhere you can hammer/push/lever? Do I need a puller for each side? Is there a hole in the car I can hammer down through :twisted: ?

Many thanks.

Jai
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Post Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:34 am

Big hammers, large levers, and large gas blowtorches all figure in this operarion.
You can attemt to drive the bolts upwards, (they have tapered heads in holes under the rear seat cushion), but these bushes don't usually give up without a fight.
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Post Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:56 am

myself one side and my dad the other both levering with crowbars came off with a bit of persausion
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Post Wed Oct 05, 2005 6:10 pm

when i did mine, i found a lot of swearing helped!
a bit of levering one side then the other.
you may need to support the diff weight.
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Post Wed Oct 05, 2005 11:49 pm

big hammer and hit those rods upwards mate
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Post Thu Oct 06, 2005 1:32 pm

Done...

The bolts turn out to be splined for those who didn't know (such as me)

Mate rang me at work and told me he's got the frame off, but broken the aluminium bush centre thing and it's stuck in the car or something.. :mad:

Cheers guys..

Jai
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Post Thu Oct 06, 2005 8:44 pm

Mate rang me at work and told me he's got the frame off, but broken the aluminium bush centre thing and it's stuck in the car or something..
just tap the bolts back up into the car,
may need to tap the aluminium part 'side to side'.
the 'aluminium bush centre thing' is part of the rear beam bush
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Post Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:46 am

that happened to me, the top aluminium part of the bush snapped off, and was left flush in the body, i nearly cried - i used a drill with one of those hole saw things to get the remains out
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