Press size

tchettle · Nov 4, 2013

Im due to do a number of things on my disco,

Rebushing, changing joint on A frame, wheel bearings.

Ive been looking on ebay at presee's and wondered what pressure press i woudl need to do all this.

Has anyone got a press and what size it

Thanks

MGBGTV8 · Nov 4, 2013

Have you considered using your vice and a suitably sized selection of sockets?
Only reason I mention it is a press is not a tool that I'd use particularly often?

tchettle · Nov 4, 2013

Yes and in the past that's what i have done, however i'm just about to embark on rebushing my disco and thinking it would make life a lot easier.

MGBGTV8 said:
Have you considered using your vice and a suitably sized selection of sockets?
Only reason I mention it is a press is not a tool that I'd use particularly often?

Boris113 · Nov 4, 2013

Can you weld? If so what about making one - it could work out quite a bit cheaper.

A couple of lengths of RSJ and a hefty bottle jack would do the same and cost a lot less.

Silverbeard50 · Nov 4, 2013

I have done the work that you mention on a 95 Disco 1 and had access to a 10 ton press. It took all of the pressure and some heat to shift some of the radius arm bushes.
In regard to the A frame ball joint, I could not get the ball joint out of the carrier or the two through bolts out of the carrier. I replaced the ball joint assembly and the two bolts.
Probably better to pay a local engineering shop to press out what you need doing.

tchettle · Nov 5, 2013

I cant weld but i had had the thought about making my own given that the ones on ebay im looking at are in effect that already

horse62 · Nov 5, 2013

well worth making your own, you can buy a 10 ton bottle jack for just £15 add a few bits of steel channel etc and job done for a fraction of the price

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