Mini digger bucket end bushes swap

[Pie face]

The bucket and link arm bushes are shot on my volvo minidigger. I have ordered a kit which has all the bushes, pins and shims. Just wondering how hard is it generally to get the old bushes out and new ones in?

 

[Farmer_Joe]

Can be hard, I did this on a machine and the bushed even though worn were hard as f**k, had to cut them with hacksaw to make em slack enough to remove used plenty of blades!

 

[nick...]

Get someone who is good with a gas axe to cut em out then pop new ones in freezer for 24 hours before installation
nick...

 

[Wombat]

This is how we pressed some new ones in in June. Was really struggling even with the freezer trick until I realised I could get the baby press out the workshop

Plasma cut the old ones then drove out with a sledge hammer and big drift. The links I did the same but just pressed in in the workshop

 

[Pie face]

Get someone who is good with a gas axe to cut em out then pop new ones in freezer for 24 hours before installation
nick...

When you're cutting them isn't there a danger of melting the main hole?

 

[nick...]

When you're cutting them isn't there a danger of melting the main hole?

There can be if you’re not good.if I was in that situation I’d get an expert to do it
nick...

 

[Wombat]

When you're cutting them isn't there a danger of melting the main hole?

yes but if you are carefull the join/difference in the metal is enough to break up the heat, bit like cutting a bearing off a shaft if you go gental you can peel the bearing off without marking the shaft, especially if you go with the flame parallel to the shaft

 

[Pie face]

yes but if you are carefull the join/difference in the metal is enough to break up the heat, bit like cutting a bearing off a shaft if you go gental you can peel the bearing off without marking the shaft, especially if you go with the flame parallel to the shaft

I see what you mean. One thing I was thinking is, I have a sabre saw so might give that with a metal blade first.

 

[Wombat]

The other way and the way I did the dipper ones is to weld round in the Inside and let the heat pull it smaller and drive it out