Oh.. BOB SAGET!

[RobertK]

I spent all day working on my front suspension and we get stuck at the control arm bushings and sway bar links.

With the old control arm bushings I can't figure out how to get the old bastards out of the arms.

With the sway bar links when I turn the but that hold it to the sway bar the fucker just spins and spins.

[Jordan]

the swaybar link has a flatspot on the other side, i think its 15mm? use it to hold it from spinning....

BMW special tool for the CA's

[RobertK]

What do you do when the bushing has rotted out and left nothing but the damn metal pressed in.

[Skafrog]

get a two jaw puller and use that.

[RobertK]

Does that shit actually work?

[Alecs MacDonald]

Take your new cabs and lolypops to a machine shop and have them press them in. 10 bucks is well worth the avoided aggrivation.

[Justin B]

What do you do when the bushing has rotted out and left nothing but the damn metal pressed in.

You could (also) use a hacksaw and slowly cut through the metal as to avoid cutting into the surface on the bracket, then when it gets really really thin, since its a little wider than the bracket take a small hammer or a punch and a hammer to tap one of the sides, hopefully breaking the bridge and it'll slide/fall out. If you cut all the way through it it also might just grab the hacksaw blade a little firmer, and when its removed it'll break on its own. Basically just taking away some material so it can get smaller in diameter and come out :/

[Bitburger]

You could (also) use a hacksaw and slowly cut through the metal as to avoid cutting into the surface on the bracket, then when it gets really really thin, since its a little wider than the bracket take a small hammer or a punch and a hammer to tap one of the sides, hopefully breaking the bridge and it'll slide/fall out. If you cut all the way through it it also might just grab the hacksaw blade a little firmer, and when its removed it'll break on its own. Basically just taking away some material so it can get smaller in diameter and come out :/

i've used this method in the past. Works great.

[nando]

You could (also) use a hacksaw and slowly cut through the metal as to avoid cutting into the surface on the bracket, then when it gets really really thin, since its a little wider than the bracket take a small hammer or a punch and a hammer to tap one of the sides, hopefully breaking the bridge and it'll slide/fall out. If you cut all the way through it it also might just grab the hacksaw blade a little firmer, and when its removed it'll break on its own. Basically just taking away some material so it can get smaller in diameter and come out :/

you could do that, but the new bushings have to be pressed in anyway (unless he's using urethane or something) so he may as well just take it to a shop. they won't charge you much, either.

[RobertK]

Actually I do plan on installing a set of Powerflex Poly Urethane CABs

[kowalski]

you could use a punch, or a hack saw, or a piece of pipe and press it out, and use a torch with some of those methods.

[nando]

Actually I do plan on installing a set of Powerflex Poly Urethane CABs

well in that case hack away.. it's not too hard. I cut out the bushings on a spare set that I had, hoping I would be able to figure out a way to press a new set of M3 offsets in, but I ended up having to get them pressed in anyway.

[hamann318is]

I had to cut the old CABs out of the brackets, and I was able to press one of the new ones in using a table vice. I still had to take the CABs to get the one I pressed in pressed fully in and to get the other CAB pressed.

Take them to a NAPA Machine Shop or something, it was only 15$.

[808BMW]

A dremel will pwn that little metal sleeve.

[RobertK]

Used the hacksaw trick and it worked like a charm. Afterwards I used a flat piece of metal and a vice to press the new ones half way in and then a wood block and a hammer to get it in there the rest of the way.