With the help from my son (bonding!), I replaced the rear trailing arm bushings on his 245 on Saturday. Both bushings were more worn than I had expected. The bolt tubes were no longer parallel to the shell, which made it difficult to distribute an even pressure when using The Tool to press the bushings out. Still, one of them came out fairly easily - well, easy as TABs go. The other one though... After lots of trial and error, moving the tool around, the bushing still did not want to come out sideways but tended to work its way upwards. When I poked at what I believed was a lump of underbody coating on the top of the bushing, it turned out it was the shell folding up on the inside of one of the brackets. We were crushing the TAB, not pressing it out. Sigh.

I saw no other way out of this than grinding/gnawing/chiseling the bushing out. I mostly used an angle grinder though. Thanks for the small favors, because the oval bushing had moved a millimetre, I was able to rotate it in the brackets so the grinder could access it all the way round the circumference.

So after quite a bit of hassle we finally had two worn bushings out and two new ones in. And my son has hopefully learned that in repair work, you sometimes have to improvise when things don't go as planned.

Photo evidence:


Erling.

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