Spring mount bushing removal

Well, it's time to install my new spring bushings and I need to remove the old steel sleeves from the frame mounts. Man, are they tight. Has anyone found a good way to extract these without beating the snot out of the frame???

 

i cut the metal part with a hacksaw in two places then used a cold chisel to get the rest out.

 

yeh i should have mentioned that part.

 

Below is a copy of a post I made last month. The suggestions are pretty much the same as the previous posts but I added a few steps:

Those old bushing sleeves are a pain. I did the same thing someone else suggested. I took apart my hacksaw, inserted the blade through the hole and re-assembled the hack saw with the blade upside down. Cut a groove all the way through the sleeve. Don’t worry if you go through the sleeve and ding the hanger. You can smooth that out with your Dremel or a file later. Next take a small chisel and start whacking the lip of the bushing so it peels inward. Do this all the way around the circumference of the hole. I used an ice pick chisel and then drove it right under my hacksaw cut, the entire length of the cut. I then took a socket from my tool chest that was just small enough to fit in the hole. Hold that socket with some pliers and whack the end of the socket. That should drive the insert right out. Clean up the burs on the hanger, coat the new bushing with light oil and drive the new one in using a wooden mallet or a block.

 

If my lack of computer savy and the fact that I don't think the same way you do offends you Sparky, please accept my apology. In the future, please don't respond to my posts.

Thanks to the other posters for your input.

That is all..........

 

C'mon Colin - he's the moderator. You can't very well ask him to butt out.

Do you expect 20 lines of *****footing around to suggest that you might use the search feature? IMO you are taking offense too easily.