Living with a Porsche 944

In the process of refreshing the front suspension these were two tasks I was dreading. The front wishbone inner bushes are big and pressed in so tightly it's a wonder they can be extracted at all. It took a coule of different approaches until I discovered the one that works. Clamping the circular steel section in a vice grip is the way to go. Place the wishbone on the floor and rotate the grips one way then back again to break the seal between the bush and the wishbone. They are seriously attached to one another after 27 years of bonding! Once that bond is broken, lever the vice grips against the wishbone and the bush will 'pop' out. This works for both sides. The bush housing seems to be a steel insert into the alloy and will need a little filing down to get it nice and smooth to take the new set of bushes. Moving onto the ball joints... This was a frustratingly difficult task. Far more so than the videos on YouTube make out - at least that was the case ...