I do. Very infrequently.

Now that spring is here I have a tree house to build and my lovely wife bought me a new lift for my birthday so I'll want to install that too! Frame is nearly all clean and ready for paint.

Personally I'd rather have a packard than any kind of ford. But if you're lookin to make money I don't think so. I found an exceptional 48 this summer for $8500.

Another tidbit of stupid!

A year or so ago I was reading about a fellow in Australia where apparently metal roofing on buildings is common. It's also common practice to use welding as a "pathing method". This guy got ticked off that the tanks kept rolling away on him so he attempted to weld the tank to the roof to stop it from rolling away. Needless to say it was the last thing he ever attempted to weld.

Thanks to all that provided information. I had a few free minutes today so I went to the garage and pulled out the Micrometer and checked the width of the "tabs" on the shaft and the diameter of the bushing. The tabs are indeed there to aid in pressing the bushing out. The job was actually simple and took only about 5 minutes. The pictures show the tabs and that the tabs fit thru the holes. Only caution here is that it is possible for the tabs to be off center and not hit the bushing which would gouge the control arm.

Even though I'm still preparing the frame for paint I wanted to remove these bushings (I did mark the orientation of everything) in case I needed to replace the shafts too.

The bottom bushings will need a different operation to remove them but I didn't clean them yet so I haven't devised a plan for their removal. There is lots of bushing sticking out so a puller or bearing splitter may be appropriate for that job.

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Why is that? Because you're curious or because it matters?

The manual indicates that "Two types of upper support arms are used in the Packard Suspension systems. The one type incorporates rubber bushings at the inner end of the arm and are not replaceable. On cars equipped with this type of upper arm, the arm and pivot bracket is replaced as an assembly" This is the type I have but the bushings seem to be for sale and thus are replaceable. The problem is that the bushings are pressed in with the shaft already installed. When setting it up in the press the only thing to push on is the shaft. If the shaft was removed this would be a trivial job. I just popped out the garage to look again and I noticed that one end of the shaft has some tabs that may be wide enough to catch the inner part of the bushing. Seems that if I do press on the shaft hard enough to compress the rubber part of the bushing the the tabs will push against the bushing. So I guess maybe the real question is has anyone ever pressed on out this way? My press is plenty big enough to do this.

Already have a shop manual. Have all the presses I need. I already removed the T/L system. The control arms are sitting on my bench. I have not purchased new ones yet but will probably replace all of them (top and bottom) while I have them off. I was thinking of buying the front end kit from kanter but Max Merrit has the bushing.

Ooops It's a 56 . The upper/inner are the ones that seem bad. all the rubber is cracked and broken.

Anyone have a good way to remove the inner control arm bushings. They are press fit into the control arm. I poked at them a bit but thought I would ask if any had a neat way to remove them before I started trying to devise a way to remove them without ruining the control arm. Thanks.