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Old 11-19-2007, 01:56 AM   #1
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I recently borrowed this tool from a guy who's a long-time member of the old Yahoo group. He has a website now where he rents and sells the tool. He made it and it's very nice. It makes removing the bushing relatively simple. You can do it with the subframe on the car. The site is www.onetrack.ca. If you have any questions let me know. I used on my E30 but it also works on Z3s and the ti. The are some blurry pictures of the tool in action here.
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you sir are awesome. i was preparing to change mine out with a sawzall.
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you sir are awesome. i was preparing to change mine out with a sawzall.
I used a sawzall and an air impact chisel, it was awful.
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I think burning them out with a torch is another method that a lot of people use. Burns off the rubber, and then the metal circles just fall out.. That is why I paid somebody to do this job, not something I wanted to do in my garage with my limited power tools.
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i am thinking about renting the tool now after reading the instructions. $60 a day isnt bad depending when the day starts.
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I think burning them out with a torch is another method that a lot of people use. Burns off the rubber, and then the metal circles just fall out.. That is why I paid somebody to do this job, not something I wanted to do in my garage with my limited power tools.
The bushings burn out, but the outside metal piece is the hard part to get out...
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Steven . . . is this a tool we could get for the site?

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I'll say that even having the tool, a lift and all the tools we could want, this job still sucked. It was an E30 that we used it on and the subframe is connected to body through the floor of the car under the rear seat with the long bolt that's shown in the pictures. You have to get that out before you can get the tool on the bushing. I don't think the ti is like that so that might be simpler. As a result of that design, part of the top of the metal cylinder in the center of the old bushing broke off in the recess in the body. It sucked balls trying to get that piece out. I think it ended up taking us about 6 hours to do the whole thing.
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