camber bushing will NOT come out

[wakingtowinter]

Doing the ball joints and I'm trying to get the camber bushing off the upper ball joint and it will not come off. The previous owner did some crackhead job on the head of the bushing and the thing is totally stripped and mangled. It's locked onto the balljoint for dear life and I can't get it to move up more than half an inch or so. I took the pinch bolt out and tapped a screw driver in there to loosen up the joint. Soaked it in PB blaster. Tried to get a wrecking bar under the lip of the bushing and wedging it out but there's not enough lip to hold the end of the bar on. I did try putting the C-clamp on there and just pressing out the ball joint and bushing at once but the angle's not right and the C-clamp bumps up against the coil. Any bright ideas anyone?

 

[disciplerocks]

Grind it off and buy new ones.

 

[trail B2]

I was able to get mine out by knocking it out from the bottom and then prying on two sides of the adjusters at once.

 

[azaizai]

sometimes the tapers good enough that if you keep hammering the housing the camber bushing will work its way out

 

[Nhaz]

Use a cutting torch and blow a small channel Downwards on the inside of the camber bushing. then give it a good whack with a hammer on the side of the bushing that you have pried up and Bend it inwards. like you were trying to do with the C clamp.

Buy new -4 +4 ones at NAPA.

 

[wakingtowinter]

thanks for the ideas guys. I got a new -1.5 + 1.5 bushing, isn't -4 +4 way more than I'd need? (6inch susp. lift, 33s)

 

[legoms013]

When I did my 4x balljoints I didn't even mess with the camber bushings, the whole knuckle should come off (downward) without effecting the camber bushings...mine stayed put all I did was take the pinch bolt out to relieve any pressure against the taper of the balljoint stud.

 

[wakingtowinter]

When I did my 4x balljoints I didn't even mess with the camber bushings, the whole knuckle should come off (downward) without effecting the camber bushings...mine stayed put all I did was take the pinch bolt out to relieve any pressure against the taper of the balljoint stud.

Definitely not the case with mine. I ended up using a recipro saw to just cut through the ball joint. Took me about 45 min to get through with a diamond tip blade. The camber bushing was on there pretty tight. And now I can't knock it loose at the bottom haha

 

[dark_flame221]

Definitely not the case with mine. I ended up using a recipro saw to just cut through the ball joint. Took me about 45 min to get through with a diamond tip blade. The camber bushing was on there pretty tight. And now I can't knock it loose at the bottom haha

so he had to destroy his ball joint in order to get the camber bushing out ?

****.... i dont wanna do that some body have a hint ? mines are totally incorporated in the beam

i dont want to destroy my ball joint.. they are perfectly fine !

 

[dark_flame221]

any



body



out

there !?

 

[Insanejughead]

"Hello? Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone home?"

(Haha, I couldn't resist...)


Dude, chill. You resurrected a thread from three years ago. Whatever these guys had done to get theirs out has been all but almost forgotten by now.


In order for us to help you better, tell us what you've done so far. So, please enlighten us.