124 Fans, Tonight I took the rear suspension spring links (for '95 E300) to a shop to have the old inner bushings pressed out and new pressed in. We found that the spring link sleeve that holds the bushing seems to be tapered, so that pressing in the new bushing would be much easier when starting at the wide end. At first the technician thought I had bushings that were too small, as they fit into one end of the sleeve rather loosely (I had managed to extract one bushing partially). He measured the new bushing and the end of the old that was sticking out, and found the new to be slightly larger than the old. Has anyone else found this, OR do I have worn-out spring links? Car as 275k miles, I'm pretty sure that the rear suspension has never been worked on. The FSM does not mention this. Of course, the inverse is also true; pressing out one way will require less and less force. I had been trying to press out the bushing the wrong way; if I'd started going the other direction, I probably would have succeeded with my method (long 7/16 bolt, washers, socket, and part of a pipe). When I do my wagon, I'll pay attention to flare/no flare on the spring link and which direction to move the bushing. I'm also going to get a piece of 7/16 Acme threaded rod to use in place of the long bolt - I stripped out threads on two bolts from the hardware store. -Max Very respectfully, /s/ Max Dillon '87 300TD 332k miles '95 E300 275k miles (project) '73 Balboa 20 Charleston SC
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