Removing old poly rtabs

[Mr Two]

So, I'm trying to get these old rtabs out. They're purple and eccentric, so I'm guessing they are powerflex?

Anyway, I had dropped the subframe and took the nut off of one, but the bolt won't budge. A wrench only rotates the bushing, and whacking it with a hammer didn't do much either, although I didn't wail on it extremely hard. Should I just pound the shit out of them, or is there a different method?

[jlevie]

You will have to drive the bolts out. Once they've been removed use a trailing arm bushing tool to pull the bushings.

[Mr Two]

It took two hours, but they're out. So much corrosion....

Looks like the bushing material itself is infact black delrin, the weird color was just a combo of dried grease and rust. Its roughly cut in the middle, leaving .5-1" gap in material. What the fuck?

[Chaos Theory]

Cut? Probably broken from wear. Sounds like it is indeed time to replace your bushes.

[Mr Two]

No, they are definitely cut. There is a band of rust on the trailing arm bushing cylinder itself from no material being there for so long. These look like they were pieced together out of a delrin bushing for a different car and spare aluminum.

[Mr Two]