press made out of a bolt and nut
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- bike5087
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press made out of a bolt and nut
So... a buddy lent me a homemade press for pressing a headset into a bicycle frame, then I proceeded to use it to press out spring bushings on my f250. Needless to say I messed it up. The tool was actually extremely strong and held up well until I accidently bottomed it out onto itself using an electric impact wrench. I also tried some allthread from the hardware store, but it was super wimpy. I'm wondering if anyone has any advice on what sort of materials (super strong) I could replicate this homemade press with.
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Re: press made out of a bolt and nut
I have used grade 8 bolts,washers and nuts with no problems many times.
Michael69
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- Bummer72
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Re: press made out of a bolt and nut
I'm not exactly sure what the 250's bushings look like, but when I worked on my Volvos, this was a popular tool we all made to remove our trailing arm bushing:
Bushing Tool
Be sure to apply some grease to the threads; your impact wrench rap-rap-raping away at it should drive them pesky bushings out.
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302, 3sp, 3.00
- eggman918
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Re: press made out of a bolt and nut
You can get grade 8 all thread at a bolt shop the fine thread pitch is strongest.If what you are pressing is real tight buy the thick/long nuts more thread surface is better.
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The"Filthy Beast"- '68 F-250 Crew Cab 131"W/B 4x4 4BT compounds hx30/Wh1c,5x.012" sac injectors/ZF 5/NP203-205 /3.54 44 trutrack front/60 trutrack rear on 33's. 2nd owner
"Beauty is only skin deep....Ugly is to the bone"
It is more important to understand what you don't know than what you do know,because then you can start to learn..???
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There are only three types of people wolves, sheepdogs, and sheep. What are you?
- bike5087
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Re: press made out of a bolt and nut
Grade 8 all thread is what I think I'll try to find. I live in a small isolated town so I may have to look around on the interwebs or travel to the big town to get ahold of some. Thanks for the advice - I wasn't even aware that you could get grade 8 all thread. Nice swedish car reference from Bummer72 - one of my other cars is an old SAAB.
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Re: press made out of a bolt and nut
Allthread is sometimes graded different from bolts. Equivelent allthread grade to grade 8 is B-7
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Re: press made out of a bolt and nut
Hopefully yours won't be as bad as mine, I finally took my springs to the local machine shop, they tried pressing them out after building a cone to do so like they do for the big trucks, but wound up using a torch to cut the outer sleeve of the bushing out to get them out. They then pressed them in using the cone tool they built. I've never had a set give me so much trouble, but what a difference it made in the truck.
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