Advice on removing/reusing leaf spring bushings?

[Steve St.Laurent]

My wife had an accident in her Jeep and bent one of the front leaf springs. I found a set of used stock Wrangler springs and am in the process of swapping them out. One of the bushings on each of the new (used) springs is bad and there is one bushing on each of the old springs that looks like brand new. Anyone have any tips/tricks on removed those good bushings without destroying them? TIA



-Steve

 

[lgibson]

I would use an old socket and hammer it out. If you have a press available I would use that. Or better yet, while it is apart get the polyurethane bushings.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Nevermind, it was EASY! I was worried, but when I tried to pull them out I found out they were split bushings (two halves). They came out no problem, took about a minute total!