Budget Hydraulic Press

[Alan_M 66 1 Cars]

Looking at going halves with a workmate on a press. Found this on Amazon. A hub and trailing arm shaft will fit it. Trying to think of a reason not too, apart from it's cheaper to run any jobs up the garage and handover £20. (I've got a front set of bearings to do for the 306 and 205 & rear shafts on the 205, so the press is really only costing me an extra £40).

 

[shonkers 6]

will save you a lot of hassle in the long run instead of big hammer

[welshpug 1,657]

personally I'd hang fire for a machinemart vat free day, much easier if you had any warranty issues, and it'd be cheaper again, for exactly the same press.

 

 

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/sealey-yk10b-10-tonne-bench-press?da=1&TC=SRC-press

 

if you are going to buy one I'd consider a floor press, as in reality they wont take up any more space and could be more useful.

 

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/sealey-yk10f-10-tonne-floor-press?da=1&TC=SRC-press

[Ryan 99]

My friend has one of those presses (bought from ebay for about £150 a few years ago). It's a perfectly good press for 205 work, but if you plan on putting anything big into them then there's only about 60cm between the uprights and that can make manoeuvring things into the right place difficult. It was too small to press the bushes out of a 200SX subframe for example.

[Dizzee stuff 33 1 Cars]

we made the press we have from 4 RSJ's and a 20 tonne bottle jack, never failed yet.

[stef205 92 1 Cars]

My friend has made one from a tractor ram pushes/presses things like a hot knife through butter. It has a reversible valve for down and up and the pump is driven by a 12v motor very simple setup

[allanallen 528 2 Cars]

I've got a Clarke floor standing press, does everything I want car wise

[calvinhorse 870]

My friend has made one from a tractor ram pushes/presses things like a hot knife through butter. It has a reversible valve for down and up and the pump is driven by a 12v motor very simple setup

That sounds absolutely lethal!

[jord294 92]

I bought a 20 ton floor standing press when I started doing beam refurbs.

 

Best money I ever spent! Even though it's mainly used for pressing trailing arm shafts in/out.

 

It's a proper ram type. Not the cheaper bottle jack and spring type

Edited August 5, 2013 by jord294

[allanallen 528 2 Cars]

He's looking at a ram type press??

[chipstick 382 1 Cars]

I've got a Clarke floor standing press, does everything I want car wise

What rating is yours Allan?

[allanallen 528 2 Cars]

Mines a 10 tonne, easily removes front/rear wheel bearings, trailing arm pins, seized torsion bars etc.

The most important thing when you've got a press is having the right tooling/lumps of bar/old bearings to get stuff out with

[Anthony 1,003]

Unless you really don't have the space, a floor standing press will be much more useful in my experience Alan.

 

I've got a Sealey 20 tonne floor standing press, and it's been brilliant. A 10 tonne would have been sufficient, but I got this for the same price in a sale

[Tom Fenton 1,541]

I've got a Clarke floor standing press,

Unless you really don't have the space, a floor standing press will be much more useful in my experience Alan.

 

 

The most important thing when you've got a press is having the right tooling/lumps of bar/old bearings to get stuff out with

This x100. Having the press is all well and good but with no press tools you will quickly get frustrated.

I have got a 1900 and 1600 front bearing old outer race with a section turned down to use as a pushing tool for installing new bearings.

[allanallen 528 2 Cars]

Tom, check the op's name

[Tom Fenton 1,541]

f***ing smart arse!

[allanallen 528 2 Cars]

f***ing smart arse!

f***ing retard!

[MiniGibbo 142]

I really want a press my self..

 

I'd probably go for a floor standing my self as it must be simpler to use

[Tom Fenton 1,541]

f***ing retard!

 

Once you have got the difference between "left" and "right" nailed down then you can call me what you want!

[allanallen 528 2 Cars]

 

Once you have got the difference between "left" and "right" nailed down then you can call me what you want!

Nahh I'm on top of that one, had it tattoo'd on my hands didn't eye retard!

 

[Alastairh 47]

I also have a floor standing 10 ton clarke ram type press. I've raised the press off the floor 50mm for 306 torsion bars, which the 20 ton press covers fine. After 5 years use the ram seals did fail 2 months ago. Thankfully they aren't expensive but its a fiddily job.

 

Al

[Tom Fenton 1,541]

I bought a cheap press off Ebay, it was less than £100 but is effectively identical to the Clarke items with a proper ram not a bottle jack and springs effort.

Its a bench standing item and has always done what I required of it, however I cannot see why folk pay massively more money over the bench item for an extra 3 ft of steel to get a floor stander, my plan was if I ever required it to get a couple of 6ft lengths of steel channel and rebuild my bench press into a floor mounted press, never really had the need to do so yet.