Who presses in Poly. Bushings?

[litlekikr]

I can't find one damn shop that will do it. Honda will press in the stock bushing but not poly's? Y? ANybody know of a shop i can go to that's not to far out of the way from fredericksburg? Va beach is as far as i'd go only if they're cheap.

[1badassgurl]

EEK knows...

[tryckjävel]

Who presses in Poly. Bushings?

any shop with a hydraulic or pnumatic press (its one of those things i couldnt see a shop doing business w/o one) so really any shop _COULD_ do it, dont see why they wouldnt.

if its something you can take off the car and drive down the gas station they will often times be more inclined to just pop 'em out for you.

[EEK]

actually if you can find this dude manny (he use to be head honda tech at autothority) he'll doin them cheap...he lives in f-burg and drives a nsx

[Skywalker]

I'm pretty sure that shop that John took me to will do it. They're called Curry's. I think they're in Sterling.

[tryckjävel]

i know theres a Curry's here in Herndon/Chantilly down near the expo center ... they've got a dyno im gonna use soon

[Skywalker]

Originally posted by swedespeed
i know theres a Curry's here in Herndon/Chantilly down near the expo center ... they've got a dyno im gonna use soon That's the one I'm talking about. They gave me a free dyno run when I got my speedo calibration there. Their shop is huge; lots of different kinds of race cars; and the guy we were dealing with seemed to know his shit!

[tryckjävel]

yeah... i've never been there... just heard a lot about them since they seem to be fair, know their shit, have a dyno, and... well... they're like 5 minutes down the road ;-)

[MKNTRAXX]

shouldn't you be able to use just a vice to press them in???

But ya need to get the old rubber ones out???

Well if you do find somewhere good let me know.. I'm redoing entire suspention with nylon bushings. Rather not break my vice trying to do it at home.

[tryckjävel]

you need to have equal pressure, i've bent stuff in a vise. But i suppose you could if you had enough leverage.

getting poly's in is easy ... getting certain rubbers out is hard

[MKNTRAXX]

I helped put polys in a honda.. and with the grease they give you for them.. I could put them in by hand.

yeah.. getting the rubber ones out is the hard part.. and i'll dread it come january when i'm replacing all 22 bushings in my car with nylon ones with stainless steel pins.


litlekikr... the hardest part i had with helping a friend with the bushing on his honda is the thin metal part thats on the outter edge of the bushing.. Rubber part would come right out.. but had to take an air chisle to get the metal part out.

Good luck with it.

[litlekikr]

well, i'[ll find out how hard it is tomorrow. A friend of mine is letting me use his press. Hopefully it'll go good w/ no damage.
Thanx for your help though!