1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

I’m copying you

 

Need to live on the northeast side of a big hill or mountain.

 

Sadly those don’t exist anywhere where I can live this cheaply or do what I like doing.

 

The fuck is my uca bolt running into

 

I'm an electrical idiot but I thought yellow was airbag/sensor related...

 

I wonder how you get the thing off the fender

 

Taco Fever

 

I'm not sure but I'm about to do mine too so this is good timing. Looks like a tight squeeze. Is that connection spot clipped into the body?

 

It looks bolted, not there’s nothing going through to the other, that I can see

 

There’s another one the the other side of the truck too


Hmm

 

Yeah that's why I thought it was airbag related, driver/passenger.
I had this one bookmarked, he pulled it on the drivers side to move it outta the way

https://youtu.be/Y_ovdYY4oEc?t=423

 

Thanks.


I took a break to eat.

 

Good call, and more time for someone smarter than me and who has actually replaced theirs to chime in

 

New sump pump works. But the basin filling up sounds like a very tiny person taking the longest leak in history. Its making my leaky toilet sense tingle.

 

All 3 of our sumps have been working overtime today. lol

 

Easiest way to get the uca bushings out


Go

 

Air hammer

 

Lul at something other than hand tools

 

Hope

 

Ways that I tried....

1. Bottle jack. Didn't work for me because my bottle jack was too big (worked fine for LCA bushings, though).
2. Use hole saw to carve out the rubber and then hacksaw to notch the sleeve so it can be peeled out. Didn't work for me because I couldn't keep my drill slow enough to keep the rubber from melting and bogging down.
3. Use a shop press, version 1: Use the UCA bolt and whatever washers/sockets you can find to make a press adapter. The bolt goes through one bushing to press down on the other. This works if your arms are super clean--I used it to salvage fresh bushings from damaged arms--but it's easy to bend/break the bolt if the bushings are corroded (and they're almost certainly corroded). I do not recommend this approach.
4. Use a shop press, version 2: Use a Harbor Freight bearing splitter (or similar) as a press adapter, as described in Timmah's video. This worked well--the hardest part is bending the flange to get the adapter in. Actually, the hardest part was swallowing my pride and buying the bearing splitter, but after that...

With hand tools... #2 is your only option, as far as I know. It'll work with enough patience. You could torch the rubber out rather than cutting.



EDIT: I'm assuming you're replacing them with OEM-style bushings. If you're using Energy Suspension bushings, you need to torch the rubber out and leave the OE sleeve in place.