How to remove rear hub carrier - need to press out bushes

[zed4]

Hi,

I need to remove the rear hub carriers to press the bushes out. I will be heading over to the garage tonight to do it, but just want to know exactly what’s involved. How do the carriers come apart from the driveshaft? Will I need any special tools, as I can stop at Halfords on the way?

Picture borrowed from another thread, but I need to get to this stage really...



Thanks,

Dan

[zed4]

Yeah, I don't want to remove the bearings, I just want to take the whole assembly off so I can get the bushes into the press.

Interesting tool, I don't have access to a lathe, but I wonder if my friend does.

[zed4]

OleVix said:

Chimp871 said:

OleVix said:

I'm doing this now, the two bottom ones on the upright are a real penis!!

burn it, knock centre out, hacksaw outer collar. Then repeat 20 times

my neighbor has a lathe and a 10 ton press, thank god, got them out today
uprights and all wishbones are now sandblasted and ready for epoxy primer and polyurethane heavy duty paint

Edited by OleVix on Wednesday 28th January 22:46

I've just dropped my wishbones off with a friend as he's got a press. He's going to press all the bushes out of the wishbones for me. I haven't removed the upright yet, I didn't have much time so I just removed the wishbones. I might try to remove the bushes in situ, otherwise I'll haveto try and remove the upright.

By the way, I'm getting my wishbones metallised, which is a process where molten zinc sprayed on. It basically galvanises the metal. Once that's done I'm going to paint them in white epoxy paint.