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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ORVietVet" data-source="post: 21900" data-attributes="member: 9438"><p>If I had an air compressor, I would not even be asking. My neighbor knows a guy that bought his "mid-life crisis" car. The white 1986 IROC Z28 Camaro is straight and nice looking but someone has lowered it in the front, or at least he thinks so and he bought a 12 piece kit for center link, inner and outer tie rods and sleeves and idler arm with bracket and lower ball joints. It has struts instead of upper control arms. It is a 5.0 MFI engine. I told him to get a free front end inspection because I was not going to inspect for free. Ask to go in the alignment rack area and be shown what is wrong and take pics if can. I told him if the springs are original, they may just be sagged. I am curious about the lower control arm bushings. I can remove the lower arms, no problem. Ball joints, no problem. Replace coil springs, no problem. Control arm bushings....problem. I used to just air hammer them out but I have no compressor. I have heated and melted the rubber out before and removed the bolt sleeves. The outer metal housing is the problem. Best ways to remove. I do not have a sawzall to cut them and fold them in on themselves. So....I ask....any recommendations? I guess I could take to a shop and wait for however long for them to do them but I would prefer to do them myself, if it is feasible. Thanks for any help.</p></blockquote><p></p>