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[s00049643]

anyone tell me how to remove doughnuts i wont be using them again

[mad4mins]

are you going to be fitting coil-overs??

[Tomf]

Blow tourch...

[Big_Adam]

really bug screw driver and a hammer. Either that or a big bolt then bash them out from top of the subframe thro the subframe tower bolts holes.

[biggav]

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let Homer loose on 'em!!!!

[dklawson]

Um... well, the donuts are the rubber bits. A hammer won't do it. The trumpets are the diecast metal parts that go between the donuts and the suspension arms. Those you can break with a hammer... but why?

Why be destructive when you don't have to? On the rear you don't need a cone compressor, you need only undo the shock mounts in the boot, jack up the car and allow the radius arms to fall until you can remove the cones and trumpets. On the front you start the same way, but you don't mess with the shocks. You need a cone compressor that screws into the center of the donut from above. With the compressor holding the load of the donut you remove the lower bump stop, jack up the car and pry the cone/trumpet out of the front subframe.

You can buy the cone compressor. However, a club or friend near by may have one you can borrow. You can also make your own if you're so inclined.

[Xiao_Bin]

for the front, you'll need to remove the suspension top arm to get the donut out

[dklawson]

From memory, I don't think you have to remove the top arm to remove the front donut... but it's been a while... I could be wrong. You may find it easier if you disconnect the top arm from the top ball joint so it will swing down lower. However, you'll still need the compressor to take the load off the arm if you want to do this safely.

[minimarco]

i think he meant the donuts are stuck to the trumpets

[Xiao_Bin]

From memory, I don't think you have to remove the top arm to remove the front donut... but it's been a while... I could be wrong. You may find it easier if you disconnect the top arm from the top ball joint so it will swing down lower. However, you'll still need the compressor to take the load off the arm if you want to do this safely.

well from my own experience, there is no way it will come out without damaging something
my cones were pretty much flat, with the rebound bumper off and the car on the axle stand, the knuckle joint had some play, so didnt need the compressor to remove it

[dklawson]

How to remove the donuts from the trumpets was posted just last week.

Brute force is involved if they've been stuck together for a while. Penetrating oil, heat, and patience are involved. A method mentioned to me was to soak the joint with penetrating oil for a while and then while holding the trumpet like a club, strike the donut against the biggest, toughest tree you can find until it breaks free.

[Gizzum]

YEEAAHHH use it like a club and go and find some innocent baby seal!!!

[Sammy D]

Easy way to remove the doughnuts from the trumpets;

1. Hold the girth of the trumpet, knuckle joint towards your, doughnut away from you

2. Stand on the edge of a pavement, facing the road

3. Whack the doughnut against the edge of the kerb

4. Doughnut will fly ff

[Bungle]

[binge]

I opened my Vice jaws right up, Sat the lip of the donut in the jaws, then with hammer and flat headed driver, I bashed the trumpet off.

This was after me and dam_buster thaught it was hillerious to pretend the Cone/trumpet combo made superb Pirate Peg-legs!