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Bushing tools 200 1993

"You could probably turn around and sell them afterwards or loan them to other brickers"
Sorry, not parting with these.
I did the complete fr & rear bushings on my 245 about 5 yrs and 125k miles ago. I figure that I'll need the cut tubing tools again in another 25-50k miles, somewhere around 300k miles, and do the job again.

I wanted to comment about the guys that cut the old bushings with a hacksaw or grinder. Did that on two 140's and a 242GT for the first 18 yrs of my Volvos.
Never again! Too much work!
A word of advice to you guys who have rusty cars and live in northeren areas with salt. If you run into difficulty while removing a bushing, sometimes the corrosion is enough to need cutting it out and if pressed in when (if) your sucessful removing it, can damage the a-arm easily. My experience is best to get a new replacement a-arm and press in a new bushing rather than expend time (and possibly ruin a good new bushing) while messing with an old a-arm.
After getting the Norhtern tool press and tubing drifts made, it's a walk in the park by comparison! btw the guy who did the tubing cutting charged me $13 for all the 10 or so pieces I needed.
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'89 245 Sportwagon, '04 V70 2.5T Sportwagon






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New Bushing tools [200][1993]
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