Did my donut bushes yesterday. Just thought I'd write a few little helpful hints incase anyone else has it planned in near future, and I can't reply to the section in maintenance guide.
Even though mine is the Elite, i didn't bother inflating the suspension, just used an axle stand and found there was enough clearance, imo, as I am young and fit and squeeze into tight holes for a living though!
When undoing the 18 mil bolt, support the arm with a scissor jack or another axle stand (not too much though - be careful not to take the weight off your first axle stand supporting the car, check and re-check), this is so you don't make the same mistake as me and have the bolt fly out at you when the last thread is released! :-/
I found my bushes came out quite easily, but then i noticed they weren't in that bad condition, but replaced them anyway as they were out.
I hammered a small gorilla bar in to the gap and levered them out a bit. Then i found it quite useful to place it in the gap but pointing to rear of car and lift with scissor jack, pushing out bush by levering against the arm itself, worked quite well. then i used a 3 ft breaker bar. I didn't need a special tool, but as i said, mine weren't in such a bad condition.
I got the bush to go in by using a scissor jack, but again be careful not to take the weight off your axle stand if you choose to do this. It wouldn't go fully home, but then once the car was lowered to ground it went fully in, so i rechecked the torque on the 18 mil bolt and that was that.
HTH
BTW, what are the flat round rubber/plastic discs on top of donut bush for and do they need replacing aswell? I didn't do mine. :-?
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