And a bit more:
"Anyway, on to the pictures. I fitted the subframe bushes this afternoon. In the end, I cooked up a collection of bits and pieces to make a simple press:
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"I bought three bits of tube from a local steel stockholder to fit around the mouting faces of the bushes and press on the outer body flange. They charged me £12 (bloody rip-off) for bits that they'd normally chuck in the bin. The jobsworth manning the tube saw couldn't have cut them more on the p1ss if he had tried. Needless to say, they won't be getting a Christmas card from me this year
. I then slit the tubes along their length to ease them around the bush flanges (above and below the subframe) and drilled a couple of old bits of angle iron to act as the cross bearers. A long M12 bolt goes through the whole lot (including the bush) and the nut tightened to press the bushes into place, like this:"
(More photos. Because the forum image management tools are crap, I'll leave you to work out which picture goes where)
"I can post the sizes for bits bits of tube if anyone's interested.
It worked a treat. I didn't have to file the holes for the larger (rear) bushes out much beyond just removing the powder coat. The bushes are an almost perfect press fit. As you can see, the force applied bent the angle iron a little, but wasn't anywhere near enough to stretch the M12 bolt. The holes for the front bushes had to be filed out a little more. I went for an interference fit of 0.15-0.25mm and that was just about right. I used a smear of PTFE lube on the bushes to help them into place."