Angus242164
I've done what Ash mentioned earlier in the thread and burnt out the rubber with a blowtorch, then fitted Superpro poly bushes into the original tubes. Burning them out is time consuming and a bit messy, and the poly bushes are a tight fit in the tubes and take a bit of work to get in, but the end result is good, there are no voids in the bushes and they will never fail again.
When I did it I had the rear axle on stands on a concrete floor, so I didn't have to worry about setting fire to the car.
Pulling out the rear axle is a bit of a pain, but so is stuffing around with special tools or fire under the car.
gavinh
I made one with threaded rod, washers a big >65mm ass socket. It's an absolute pain in the arse and took a couple of hours to do them, I replaced mine with ome ones from ash. Plenty of soaking with penatrine, crc, inbox, etc did help. If you haven't already check the chassis to different ones. Mine were non existent. I burnt those ones out.
240
I had this done recently by a mechanic. Used the poly ones which he said were a huge pain to install, and he had to burn out the old ones.
You mention that you had the smaller ones at the front end replaced already - did you do these in rubber or poly? The advice Ash gave me was to use different materials for both ends, so if you did the small ones in rubber, do the big ones in poly, or vice versa.
(I'm now wishing I'd done it the other way round and used rubber for the big ones, but it seems fine as is so I'm not worrying about it.)
gavinh
Handles so much better, nice and tight with limited body roll. Running lowered Springs, should really upgrade the shocks too at some point. I also replaced all the rubber mount at the same time, strut tops, engine, trans etc
Angus242164
Nothing wrong with using poly for everything, any increase in NVH is very minor and bush lifespan is much longer with poly bushes.
Another option:
http://www.kaplhenke.com/collections/240/products/240-rear-axle-spherical-bearings
Volvo2106
Thanks guys for all the advice. I will go with OEM. Its not a job that I would take on myself. Do any of you have the special tool that I could borrow? If so, then I would likely take to my friendly mechanic and help do the job.
jamesinc
I can make the tooling on my lathe, I just need to get around to getting some bar stock of the right size
Ex850R
Blackwoods used to carry Barstock?
Angus242164
Last time I tried to get some from them they only wanted to sell it by the 8m length, I would try a machinery/scrap dealer, or maybe an engineering workshop would be happy to sell some offcuts.
tbro
I believe that you can get black pipe joiners the right diameter, threaded but that shouldn't be an issue.
jamesinc
I'll call around about bar stock. I need to do the bushings on my own car. I want to make a nice tool for it, if I accomplish that I'll set up a loaner program for it.
jamesinc
Okay I found a source of offcuts and have ordered a bunch.
Philia_Bear
jamesinc;94253 wroteOkay I found a source of offcuts and have ordered a bunch.
if you need help let me know and always happy to help
volvodriverman
I've got a copy of the factory tool I can measure up if you want?
Volvo2106
Thanks for the enthusiasm guys. James, i am happy to help get that tool together. Just let me know.
jamesinc
@volvodriverman I would love some metric measurements if you could! And a couple photos too?
I was thinking I'll make two tools. One to pop the whole bushing, and one to just press out the rubber for people (like me) who want to put urethane inserts in.
volvodriverman
Alrighty I'll get on it.
volvodriverman
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This is what I built yrs ago, been ages since I've used it...if you like I can post it over & you can use it as a template.
jamesinc
@volvodriverman that would be a lot easier than making one from scratch! I'll PM you my address.
Volvo2106
James - let me at least pay for the postage.