Thread: How I ended up fitting the bushings to my W123 300D LCA
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Old 05-22-2010, 06:15 PM
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Oh sorry I forgot to say - the alternative to trying to draw the old bushings out is to just knock the heck out of the aluminium tube with a large hammer and punch. You'll get there in the end! I did one LCA that way and the other as described above...
I did four of these about a month ago and had no problem "folding in" the aluminum tube using a screwdriver and hammer then just pounding it out of the bushing. Perhaps I just got lucky.
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