[Spectacularspectral]

I need to remove this bushing so I can slide the air can off. Does this require a standard bushing removal tool?

 

[Jayem]

I need to remove this bushing so I can slide the air can off. Does this require a standard bushing removal tool?

That's not a bushing, that's a pin or axle. The bushing is the thing that it rotates on, in between the pin and the shock body. You don't need to remove the bushing to get the shock can off.

Bushing removal tools often do it, because they are for removing all the hardware, so you can remove the bushing ultimately.

You are going to run into a little bit of an issue with how long that pin is, it's on the longer side and some of the "socket" style bushing tools aren't long enough to push it out into the socket-like cap, so you might need some spacers. This is where bushing removal tools might come up a little short, but it's not too hard to overcome this with some spacers and ingenuity. Only generally a problem at those longer pin lengths. By all means though, get a bushing removal tool, it will make your life much easier and is so much better than beating on the shock. Cheap stuff available on ebay that works fine.

 

[karpiel]

Or push it out halfway with a thin socket and the exposed other half of the pin clamp in a vice with soft jaws and wiggle it free, simples !

 

[TraxFactory]

Deep dwell socket on one side that clears the pin but sits flush on shock shaft. Rubber mallet on pin....smack it out into socket. Complete smacking out with a socket that sits just inside the bushing..

 

[ivwshane]

I’ve used a combination of a deep socket, a skinny bolt and nut, and a washer to push out/install a bushing.

 

[IMeasure]

I have these long axles on a couple bikes. I have the rockshox bushing removal tool and the cup is not deep enough to get it completely free. To get it all the way out I have a pair of soft jaws on my vice that have cutouts specifically to hold round things. Just lightly squeeze on the axle and it wiggles out easily.

 

[Spectacularspectral]

Deep dwell socket on one side that clears the pin but sits flush on shock shaft. Rubber mallet on pin....smack it out into socket. Complete smacking out with a socket that sits just inside the bushing..

So you just use socket to catch the axle has you hammer it out? Basically just using mallet to drive the axle out of bushing? No special tools required?

 

[TraxFactory]

So you just use socket to catch the axle has you hammer it out? Basically just using mallet to drive the axle out of bushing? No special tools required?

Yep, the socket holds the end of the shock shaft (flat part), keep it square when you tap on it, the deep dwell socket should have enough room inside to catch the entire axle so it doesn't bind up.

Once the axle is mostly out and you cannot tap on it anymore you may need another socket that would fit inside the bushing so you can tap it the rest of the way out.

You could also use some of the methods described above to get it out the remaining amount. Just depends how tight that sucker is.

Don't get all ham fisted banging it out, should not take too much force you don't want to damage the axle or shaft

 

[Spectacularspectral]

Yep, the socket holds the end of the shaft, keep it square when you tap on it, the deep dwell socket should have enough room to catch the entire axle so it doesn't bind up...once the axle is mostly out and you cannot tap on it anymore you may need another socket that would fit inside the bushing so you can tap it the rest of the way out.

You could also use some of some of the methods described above to get it out the remaining amount. Just depends how tight that sucker is.

Don't get all ham fisted banging it out, should not take too much force you don't want to damage the axle.

And to get it back in you just use mallet again and tap it in?

 

[TraxFactory]

And to get it back in you just use mallet again and tap it in?

I have use a vice with sockets, or you can use a bolt with washers and sockets.

What bike is it?