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Range Rover Blues:
The environmentaly friendly way to remove your old bushes is to burn out the rubber with a blowtorch then cut through the steel outer with a hacksaw until it fallls out, then clean up and push the polybush in.  I did this for my Panhard rod which I'd say is one of the most important bushes to have in good nick but I admit to buying new front radius arms and rear trailing links.  I also havn't done the rear A frame yet and I'm interested by the comment above from Sharpshooter.

Xtremeteam:
but without a press its hard going changin the ball joint,to get it out u need to cut the lugs of the old balljoint so you can rest the a frame on the bed o the press & push the ball joint out

Budgie:
I've always used RRB's environmentally friendly way of extracting the old rubber bushes, just be careful when cutting the last peice out that you don't score the I/D of the radius arm or trailing arm!!

Fitting the Polybushes (I've also got Poly Blue's on the Disco) is easy and requires little effort.

With the A-frame ball joint (will be doing mine in the next week or so) I've used heat in the passed to expand the outer casing and the joint has come out with little effort, or maybe I was just lucky!  :?
To got the new one in either use a press, if have one handy, or use a little heat on the casing and stick the joint in the freezer for a while to cool it, once the joint is in place then cool the casing ASAP so the heat doesn't transfer into the joint.
I know it sounds a bit like butcher'ish but needs must if you don't have access to a press and it worked with my old Rangie.  :(scared):

Range Rover Blues:
Combinations of heat/cooling often impart less stress on componets than pressing alone.  I too have only the intermittent gravity press at my disposal but fortunately I have a spare pair of A frame arms to rebush ready to fit.

beast5680:
I have fitted a set of deflex poly bushes to mine using a bushwacka bush removal tool to remove the old bushes ,took me 6 hours to do the whole lot the only ones i havent done yet are the front shock bushes as i,m going to fit new shocks soon, they have improved the ride loads but then my old bushes were well knackered so anything would improve it

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