Technical 63 impala control arm bushing removal

Hey guys I’m sure this topic has been covered before but how do I remove and reinstall control arm bushings for a 63 impala?

 

Air chisel to remove them, proper size socket to drive new bushing in with hammer.
Tighten bushings to control arm crossbar with car full weight, wheels on the ground

 

Pretty much as above but I use a ball joint press to do it. I sometimes have to make up a driver or receiver to fit the bushings.

 

Hold it just right and hit it with a hammer. Then let of a string of curses.
Actually pretty much as stated above. A little heat helps too.

 

You should use a hydraulic press and some tubes/sockets to remove and install them.

I would also highly recommend you use some type of spacer between the inner end of the control arm to prevent the ends of the control arm from being squeezed together. Here's a good explainer, even though it's for Corvair upper control arms: https://corvaircenter.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=919205#msg-919540

I followed the above method and had good success, as shown here: https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...2-rambler-wagon.1291532/page-11#post-15494594

 

This was a year back on my Belair. The old ones were the usual battle coming out. I was working outside on top of my big garbage bins, a great height for a bad back.

Once apart, get everything clean. I used never seize for reassembly. Which I did in my big bench vise. I keep some old beat up sockets to hammer them in.

 

I rented a bushing removal tool from auto zone. Will that work?

 

This tool?

 

First answer has it. Air chisel is less than 20$. Drive the old ones out with the chisel. Drive the new one in w a hammer & socket or block of wood.

 

Owwww MOTHER FUCKER! OWWW OWW FUCKKKKK

 

Here's my preferred method and the way we've done it at the shop for over 40 yrs.

Big vise, turn arm on its side with a bushing facing down, open the jaws on vise just enough that the bushing will just fit between the jaws, now with arm sitting on the jaws and the bushing between the jaws, hit the inside of the bushing shell with a hammer and knock it out. Let the shaft fall out with the bushing, turn over do other side.

I just used either a cheap bushing knocker or big socket to drive the new bushings in.

It's easier and faster if you have someone hold the arm for you, either bushings coming out or going in.

I like doing it this way for 2 reasons, the arm is supported by the jaws while driving bushings in or out. The other reason is speed, me and the guy I work with have done it so long and many times, we usually have a bushing out within 3 hammer swings....


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The trick is to get that inner sleeve moving. It helps to cut away some rubber so you can see it.

Any that I do, I use never-seize on metal to metal surfaces.