Moog LCA Bushings

I have used Moog LCA bushings on several replacements and had no problems. This last batch was constructed differently than the previous ones. The older ones had the rubber apparently tightly inserted into the space between the pin sleeve and the bushing outer shell. Thus, when I removed the pin from the old bushing, the sleeve came out with the pin. Then, I could get a screwdriver between the shell and the rubber to pry it out. However, the newer ones seem to be bonded with some kind of super-**** so that the pin sleeve/rubber/outer shell are "living as one":realcrazy:. When I pushed the pin out, it came out of the sleeve by itself and the sleeve stayed behind with the rubber. At first, I thought that was a good thing...don't have to worry about cutting the sleeve off of the pin. But then I started trying to get the sleeve and rubber out of the shell so I could weld on attachments to push the shell out of the CA. DAAAAYUMMM!!!! I cut, punched, pushed, drilled...literally took hours to shred the rubber and eventually get enough of the pieces out to be able to weld a washer to the top of the shell.

Oh, and by the way, the way the rubber is bonded to the new bushing and shell, it laps over the top of the shell where it used to be bare metal. That caused the pipe that I use for a mandrel to install the bushing into the CA to "squirm" under pressure...very difficult to keep the mandrel straight up/down and get a good centered press.

IMHO, they fixed something that didn't need fixin'