DIY Subframe tool

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Post Mon Aug 14, 2006 2:31 pm

Hi

Has anyone got the details for the diy subframe mounts tool?

Im after the one that uses radiator pipe blanks etc -

Also, the mod for the check control panel lights as well.

Thanks

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Post Mon Aug 14, 2006 2:42 pm

http://homepage.mac.com/jasonblitzdesig ... bum51.html

what check control mod are you after?
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Post Mon Aug 14, 2006 6:41 pm

the one where the lights stay on after the button is pressed (not the red lights!!)
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Post Mon Aug 14, 2006 6:46 pm

Thanks BTW
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Post Mon Aug 14, 2006 6:55 pm

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Post Mon Aug 14, 2006 6:57 pm

NP btw ;)
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Post Mon Aug 14, 2006 9:48 pm

Alternatively burn all the rubber off the old bush. This leaves the metal frame of the bush. Use a hacksaw to cut halfway down each side leaving a strip in the middle. Bend the two strips over at ninety degrees and drill 12 mm holes in them. Put this "tool" between the subframe and the bodywork. Put a 12 mm threaded rod through from the inside of the car down through the tool and the subframe. Put the new bush on the other end of the rod and using suitable washers and nuts and fairy liquid (or ideally silcone grease), tighten the nuts on the 12 mm rod to pull the new bush up into the subframe. 8)
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Post Tue Aug 15, 2006 12:04 am

i think i've got the special tool for this at work... i gotta search for it anyway, coz im doing a set of subframe bushes saturday! quaser, you still want them done? pm me mate...
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