Heavy Equipment Bushing Removal 

I've seen several people that could torch out those bushings and never touch the bore

Did the same thing to remove dry cylinder sleeves on a 318 Perkins 4-cylinder Diesel. Factory had special puller to remove, very difficult and expensive. Thanks for reminding me to also use it to remove bushings 👍

When you get to bigger machines and harder bushings, hydraulic power is needed. Nice video!

Thanks for the help worked amazing

Good idea and thanks for the tech tip.

I went to a truck parts and tools store once to buy a puller to get a stuck bearing race out of a bore. It was really stuck, tried everything and almost all the edges were a puller might grab were chipped off so i decided with pain in my wallet to buy a dedicated bearing puller for this repair. And the good ones are expensive... I explained my problem and told the old man behind the counter i needed this tool. he said to me: "i can sell it to you right now for 200,- but ill know something better; you got a welder? Then go back to your shop, weld a circle around the inside and you will tap it out with ease" went back to the store a month later for some parts and sadly the old man passed away 3 weeks after my visit so i couldnt thank him anymore.

Have to change them next weekend. Definitely going to give it a shot

Thanks needed to see this technique.

Good stuff. I'm trying it next time. Thanks for sharing

Thank you so much...

Thanks for the tip it works great

Just used this meathod on my 1.5t digger. Used mig welder.

Great idea! I agree that torching the bushing is a bad idea

Torching the bushings works fine, the bore dose not get hurt if you do it right. I cut the bushings on both sides in a couple minutes, no damage to the bore

Thank you for sharing. I have to remove four very rusted bushings out of a wheel loader from the early eigthies. Hopfully this method will work..

I have been running a torch for years. I believe the torch I best for removing bushings. When the torching done it will be in two pieces with no harm down to the bore

A nice trick thanks for sharing

Nice tip ... when you install new bushings do you freeze bushing and heat bore? Curious if you have any special techniques. Thanks for posting

Will this work on bigger diameter bushings.

Great method thanks, fyi in the field I use a die grinder to carefully cut most of the way through and drift it out.. for what it’s worth it!

How do you remove the lower boom pin

ok, i have disassembled my entire 580b backhoe, the main top pin and bushing were about 10 more minutes from eating into the metal past the bushing, the top pin has about 20% of the metal gone, deep gouge groove. tomorrow I attempt to get the main bushings out, they are 51.02mm ID x 63.5mm OD x 31.8mm L and 51.02mm ID x 63.5mm OD x 38.1mm L. I was going to try the weld all inside them to shrink using my mig. instead, i am going to try this method, and see how it goes. i have already tapped on them, and pressed a little bit with a home made rig, they are in there. will report back on how it goes.

justin dont pay mind to these people running their mouth alot of people do only one thing and think they are god at it i have a channel and sometimes here the same crap difference is i do a lot of different things and you cant be god at everything i for one liked what you did and i have to replace some in my excavator so thankyou for showing this

Been doing that for years. Glad you Clowns finally learned something new.

Will let yah know how it goes. have a 5 ton

Im sure arc marks all over that previously smooth surface is proven too😂 you can make video's without accusing all of youtube being clowns. If you have to do that you should be sure you dont f up everything 😂

Wow

If you're good with a torch it's not very hard to do without touching the bore. And you don't have weld splatter everywhere.

Lol this came in handy today

its genius

Run a bead around the inside of the bushing

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What with the Americans using bunch to describe everything

hate when people badmouth others because you don't like their method. and metal expands when you heat it.

I see a lot of clowns on you tube calling a mini excavator .....heavy equipment.....

Your shoulder must hurt from patting yourself on the back 🤡🤣 if you talk crap on other methods probably should be on your A game yourself! Wasted angle and stainless rod! Arc strikes all over the the bushing! Weld a bead around the inside diameter and once it cools it will push right out!

I sure hope you don't change these for a living. You have no idea what you are doing.