How to get shackle bushgs out of banjo?

How do i get the shackle bushings out of a banjo housing? One side is worn thru the bushing, what is left of the bushing won't budge, i tried some heat but didn't get it red. i took a hacksaw blade and made a couple cuts thru the bushing in hopes of loostening it and taking it out in a couple pieces. I made a bushing driver from an axle - 3/4OD with 5/8 alignment pilot, it took them out of the springs no problem.
The banjo has me stumped, any advice.
Thanks, oj

 

Drill bit. Run it in between the bushing and the hole it is stuck in then let it travel right around the putside of the bushing. it will want to pull itself around. What is holding the bushing in there is rust.

 

I had to drill some out on my T Bucket. It took them down to a thin shell, which I drove out with a punch.

 

I thought of a drill bit, i got a hole-hawg that i could use but i just know the bit will bind up and that damned drill motor will toss me across the shop. Guess i'll wait to quitin time that way if i dislocate a shoulder or break a collabone it can heal during the night - unless there are better ideas.

 

I take a dremmel with a carbide tip and lighting work a groove into the bushing from both sides so that the groove connects the "line". Keep digging in that groove until you are through the bushing but not enough that you score cast shackle hole. Then with a screwdriver and a hammer you'll be able to fold it up and knock it out. Works like a charm.

 

Big ole steel rod and a Harley Davidson Tune Up Tool (BFH) worked for me.

 

Fun job ain't it.

I cut slits in the bushing down close to the outer hole with a metal blade, then chisels and a good size punch or drift. Make a few slits in the thin side of the bushing.

 

All those will work; Just have to keep at it.

4TTRUK

 

There's a limit to how hard you can whack it without bending the forging...
Consider taking your bushing driver and putting a long bolt or all-thread through the hole, carefully align the od with bushing, use the bolt to pull into a deep socket against the far side of the arm. This way you can apply lots of force without bending the thing...force is only limited to the amount necessary to break the bolt (and maybe fire it through your skull).

 

What about a pusher and receiver socket with a clamp. Like a u joint.

 

Be sure when you get it out you run a hone through it to clean up anyhiccups you may have made. Don't go much because the factory shackle bolt/bushing will jam up when you hammer it in and it does need to be tight in the bore.

 

Lets see - firing a bolt thru my skull, thats probably what got me into doing thus stuff in the first place, why i could'aben an IT specialist or a telephone sanitizer. But, no, i got just enough 'perfectionist' genetic material in my dna that makes me do dumb shit like this.
Well, if i get these bushings out tonight then i'll have the rear, wheels and tires on it tomorrow and it'll kinda be on the ground for the first time in a year and a half.
I like your idea Bruce - other that the firing thing - i got a greenlee hydraulic punch set that can do just as you describe, except it has a PUMP!
Later, oj

 

That's what I used too.

 

I use progressively larger and larger drills until the shell is so thin it usually grabs to the drill and spins out.

 

I have heated the bushing with a torch till it went on fire, and then let it burn(outside of course, lots of smoke)then you can push the rubber out, then take a chisel hit the outer sleeve in towards the center and tap the outer sleeve out.