After numerous threads down through the ages stating that pressing out OEM lower control arm bushings is in some way prohibitively difficult, I thought I would post up a short cut. Use this tip yourself or pass it on to the shop doing your pressing.
In this case they were rusted in pretty good. It is possible for them to be rusted so bad as to require creative dissection with air chisels etc.
Toyota wants you to cut off the flange on the old bushing to allow the control arm eye to be supported (against the pressing force) by a SST or in our world a QUALITY bearing splitter. It sounds simple enough but in reality, removing that flange without destroying the eye can be quite a challenge. The flange is right up against the control arm eye.
Here we go.
Bend back the edge of the flange with a stout hammer and drift, in 2 places 180deg (more or less) apart. No biggie.
Flange bent back.
This allows room enough for a splitter to support the control arm eye against the pressing force. Don't be timid when tightening the splitter against the bushing.
Splitter supporting the eye and ready for pressing. The pressing force must be delivered thru the opposing eye with what ever stuff you got on hand (pipe, rod, sockets, general stock, etc.)
The offending bushing, now a paper weight...
Pressing in the new bushings is as simple as just pressing them in.
In this case they were rusted in pretty good. It is possible for them to be rusted so bad as to require creative dissection with air chisels etc.
Toyota wants you to cut off the flange on the old bushing to allow the control arm eye to be supported (against the pressing force) by a SST or in our world a QUALITY bearing splitter. It sounds simple enough but in reality, removing that flange without destroying the eye can be quite a challenge. The flange is right up against the control arm eye.
Here we go.
Bend back the edge of the flange with a stout hammer and drift, in 2 places 180deg (more or less) apart. No biggie.
Flange bent back.
This allows room enough for a splitter to support the control arm eye against the pressing force. Don't be timid when tightening the splitter against the bushing.
Splitter supporting the eye and ready for pressing. The pressing force must be delivered thru the opposing eye with what ever stuff you got on hand (pipe, rod, sockets, general stock, etc.)
The offending bushing, now a paper weight...
Pressing in the new bushings is as simple as just pressing them in.