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69Rcode_Mach1

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Hey guys it has been a long while since I have been on, but I have finally got my new goodies so I got the car apart again. I was wondering if anybody knows any tricks to getting the rubber bushings the shackles go through that attach to the body, out? I have tried pounding on them, but no luck. I used a hydraulic press to get them out of my new leafs and install the new del alums, but no idea how to get the ones on the frame out.
 
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Huh? The OE shackle bushings are a chunk of rubber donut stuck into a steel tube in the frame. Sometimes they stick pretty well, just jab a screwdriver into them and pry them out. The steel tube, of course, is welded to the frame.
 

69Rcode_Mach1

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Oh okay so the steel tube will stay in there, I thought they were one piece, kinda like the front eye bushings.
 

69Rcode_Mach1

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Got em out, I thought they were a one piece bushing, didn't realize it was two. Prying worked a lot easier than trying to pound in that mushroomed head. Now to get these del alums in there!
 
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