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Easy way to remove the original type plastic rear swing arm bushes.

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Nurse Julie:
All the aftermarket bronze bushes you can buy for CB SOHC/4's, including the ones I sell, are flanged. When installing them, you don't refit the felt washer, or the outer plastic insert, you just fit the bronze bushes and the end cap.

Oddjob:
The 550 used flanged bushes but they weren’t metal, they were some sort of hard nylon. It’s possible these may come out with heat Ted but the 500 metal bushes will laugh at heat, they are difficult to remove at the best of times plus as I said the flame would discolour the paint if not bubble it. Trust me Ted, been there, done that.

Without a special tool which goes behind the end of the bush and you can then drive the bush out from the other side the hacksaw method is the best way of removing them.

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