sschambers
15+ Year Contributor
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- Sep 26, 2007
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Hermitage,
Pennsylvania
Ok, first off I just want to say this isn't for a Mitsubishi. I felt the need to post this because it's hilarious and maybe someone would get a kick out of it.
My friend stopped over with the entire rear knuckle/trailing arm assembly for his 95 Subaru wagon. The bolt for the arm was completely seized in the bushing. We took it out to the garage to try drilling it out. Drilling was no luck, so I used oxygen/acetylene to burn out the entire bushing. The downfall - no one sells JUST the bushing for the arm. And he couldn't afford a new trailing arm assembly...
So.......10 minutes of some quick thinking and a few measurements, I came up with an idea.
I had a couple extra bushing sleeves laying around from my polyurethane bushing master kit (they sent 4 too many sleeves).
Found a couple of sockets. A 1" and a 3/4"...
The 1" socket fit 100% perfectly into the hole where the old rubber bushing used to be...The 3/4" socket fit perfectly in the 1" socket, and the sleeve fit perfectly in the 3/4" socket...
So after grinding out the bottom of both the 1" and 3/4" sockets, and trimming 0.4" off of the 3/4" socket, I came up with the answer to the problem
.
The 1" on the left, the 3/4" in the middle and the sleeve to the right.
Grinding out the 1" socket.
The bottom of the 1" socket after grinding to fit the sleeve.
The 3/4" inside the 1" socket, and the sleeve inside the 3/4". (Needed lightly tapped all the way in, along with some grease).
And the result
When I put this creation into the trailing arm, it needed shaved down just a hair. We got it to match the other bushing by 0.2mm
Of course this is just a temporary fix until he buys the new parts...But the best part about it, is it actually works...Very well
My friend stopped over with the entire rear knuckle/trailing arm assembly for his 95 Subaru wagon. The bolt for the arm was completely seized in the bushing. We took it out to the garage to try drilling it out. Drilling was no luck, so I used oxygen/acetylene to burn out the entire bushing. The downfall - no one sells JUST the bushing for the arm. And he couldn't afford a new trailing arm assembly...
So.......10 minutes of some quick thinking and a few measurements, I came up with an idea.
I had a couple extra bushing sleeves laying around from my polyurethane bushing master kit (they sent 4 too many sleeves).
Found a couple of sockets. A 1" and a 3/4"...
The 1" socket fit 100% perfectly into the hole where the old rubber bushing used to be...The 3/4" socket fit perfectly in the 1" socket, and the sleeve fit perfectly in the 3/4" socket...
So after grinding out the bottom of both the 1" and 3/4" sockets, and trimming 0.4" off of the 3/4" socket, I came up with the answer to the problem
.
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The 1" on the left, the 3/4" in the middle and the sleeve to the right.
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Grinding out the 1" socket.
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The bottom of the 1" socket after grinding to fit the sleeve.
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The 3/4" inside the 1" socket, and the sleeve inside the 3/4". (Needed lightly tapped all the way in, along with some grease).
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And the result
When I put this creation into the trailing arm, it needed shaved down just a hair. We got it to match the other bushing by 0.2mm
Of course this is just a temporary fix until he buys the new parts...But the best part about it, is it actually works...Very well
.... Sometimes the things we dont need for our DSM's others may need
