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    Subframe Won't Come Down!

    While trying to pull my subframe down, the two bushings started to fall apart on the inside and won't budge. The subframe is hanging on those stuck bushings and won't come down.

    I've tried beating it, including the 5/8 bolt trick with no avail. Tonight I took a 1.625" hole saw and tried cutting the rubber, but it seemed to stop at some point. I'm out of ideas.

    Any advise?
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    #2
    Everything unbolted like the diff from chassis etc? Sometimes the aluminum sleeve corrodes to the steel chassis. In the case i just melted the rubber bushing out and it came down then I had to beat the sleeve out of the chassis.


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      #3
      Originally posted by ThatOneEuroE30 View Post
      Everything unbolted like the diff from chassis etc? Sometimes the aluminum sleeve corrodes to the steel chassis. In the case i just melted the rubber bushing out and it came down then I had to beat the sleeve out of the chassis.
      Everything is removed, it's clearly only hanging on the bushings.

      The car is in my grandmothers garage next to her new cadillac, so I'd rather not burn the bushings while it's in the garage. Think a red hot screwdriver might do the trick? It would smoke a lot, but it wouldn't be quite as bad.
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        #4
        Back the caddy out?


        1989 325is l 1984 euro 320i l 1970 2002 Racecar
        1991 318i 4dr slick top


        Euro spec 320i/Alpina B6 3.5 project(the never ending saga)
        Vintage race car revival (2002 content)
        Mtech 2 turbo restoration
        Brilliantrot slick top "build"

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          #5
          Originally posted by ThatOneEuroE30 View Post
          Back the caddy out?
          It's more the factor of burning rubber in a garage that's not mine. It'll probably come down to that, though.
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            #6
            Say your doing it for science


            1989 325is l 1984 euro 320i l 1970 2002 Racecar
            1991 318i 4dr slick top


            Euro spec 320i/Alpina B6 3.5 project(the never ending saga)
            Vintage race car revival (2002 content)
            Mtech 2 turbo restoration
            Brilliantrot slick top "build"

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              #7
              Originally posted by ThatOneEuroE30 View Post
              Say your doing it for science
              Lol
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                #8
                The way I had to get mine out of my IX was to take an 3/8 extension from the top and use an 8lbs sledge hammer with a half swing to just brute force it out. Within a couple hits with that it was free.

                Sometimes if it doesn't work you just have to use a bigger hammer.
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                  #9
                  Long ass prybar.
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                    #10
                    A hot screwdriver will take forever just get a big ass crowbar from harbor freight or get a blow torch from Lowe’s I promise you it pays for itself with the time you will save an just use the heat shield to block everything you don’t wanna burn👍🏻 Good luck!!

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                      #11
                      Stop what you're doing.

                      Step 1.) Spend 2-3 days looking at it sideways, and making up new cuss words.

                      Step 2.) Put on your car working clothes, and try to man handle it until you think the car might fall on you. Do this until you think you might die.

                      Step 3.) By day 4 you'll wish it would and pray that the car might kill you.

                      Step 4.) Attack it with chemicals. Anything you can spray and is slippery will do.

                      Step 5.) Call your insurance agent, and ask about your homeowners fire insurance policy. (that thing is RIGHT next to the tank)

                      Step 6.) Finally man up, and wiggle that thing out like it's a loose tooth at Jurassic Park.
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                        #12
                        Drive a large long bolt into the bushing (the bushing is soft so get a thread size bigger and ugga that thing in) Use that large bolt like a slide hammer and smack the living hell out of it straight down. It will come out trust me
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                          #13
                          $9 air hammer from harbor freight- does the trick, every time
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                            #14
                            Trust me guys, a crowbar didn't work! I just put small dents into the area above my subframe!

                            The first side took 5 days, the second took 5 minutes.

                            I took a 5/8-11 UNC tap and ran it through the cast aluminum core of the bushing, threaded a long 5/8 bolt into it, then used a 3 pound hammer to whack it free.

                            Hitting it downwards through the subframe bolt hole did NOT work!

                            And yes, the underside of my car is all muddy and nasty. This subframe is getting reinforced, painted, new brake lines installed, new bushings, stainless braided brake lines, and the body is getting undercoated black. The trailing arm and body hard brake lines are also getting replaced with Nicopp nickel/copper line.

                            It's out, and here are some pics I took after to show how I did it.

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                              #15
                              That's nuts. I just dropped mine and it came right out. California car tho.
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