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Hi,
Need to replace the bushings in my shock and was wondering if anyone had the DU Removal Tool?
http://www.mojostore.co.uk/acatalog/Fox_Rear_Shock_Bushing_Kits.html
Be will to pay for postage each way and put £30 into a paypal account (as insurance) while I use it to replace my worn bushings and then return.
Ask at your local bike shop if they have a freehub body bolt from a Shimano hub. It's the perfect size for pushing the DU out in a vice (into a socket).
if you have a small socket set check them, as one of my small sockets fits perfectly, then as above push out into a much bigger socket via a vice
Got loads of old Shimano hubs kicking about. Which Bolt we talking about?
Try one of these for 12 quid including postage. They also do cheap bushings.
[url= http://www.stephenscycles.talktalk.net/Tools.html ]http://www.stephenscycles.talktalk.net/Tools.html[/url]
Will you be using the tool with a vice or without one?
i got Vice's 🙂
There is one on eBay for under £10 delivered, works very well.
Got loads of old Shimano hubs kicking about. Which Bolt we talking about?
The massive hollow bolt that attaches the freehub body to the hub, at bottom right of this image:
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The flat, non-threaded end is a perfect fit and better than a socket as it isn't rounded.
+1 for the £12.00 one of eBay, got one last week. The supplied bush only lasted 1 ride on my Remedy though, I think I need to replace the alloy hardware. 🙁
[url= http://http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/REMOVAL-INSTALLATION-FOX-SHOCK-BUSH-TOOL-/110838163622?pt=UK_sportsleisure_cycling_bikeparts_SR&hash=item19ce7828a6#ht_724wt_943 ]eBay link[/url]
£9 posted!
that's what I am replacing (Trek Remedy 9)RP23 (4 years old and first time replacing)
Cheers Chaps, I'll get my hardware ordered today and a hub dismantled
😀
The vice specific tool are much fater and realistically it's what all the pro mechanics I know use in the work shop.
The smaller tools you get from ebay are OK, however I had problems with the threads on the screws / bolts getting damaged easily.
Still once you have the tool sorted you can fix loads of other riders bushes for beers 😀
If the tool you make removes any of the bushes lining I would simply buy an actual tool.
Goodluck!
So i used the Bolt from from the Shimano Freehub body, with a vice, worked like a dream. Big thanks to Thrre_Fish for the tip.