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Step 1 How to refurbish and clean longboard bushings. Start by placing your board on its top so that you can access the Step 2. To remove the hanger, wiggle it off of the kingpin (large bolt), then lift it out of the pivot cup. Make sure Step 3. Using pliers (needle nose would work best).

First, loosen and remove your kingpin nut, then remove your top bushing washer, roadside bushing, hanger, and boardside bushing from the kingpin. You may need to wiggle your hanger side to side to help pull the top bushing out of the bushing seat and remove the hanger's pivot from the pivot cup. Next, select your new bushings, and reassemble. Jan 17, This is a video intended to show beginners how to remove the bearings from their longboard wheels.

I am no expert on the job (this is my first time doing it).

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The best way to eliminate this annoying noise is by taking a few shavings of bar soap or wax and dropping them into the empty pivot cup (make sure you take your hanger out first). Then just distribute the soap/wax around the pivot cup evenly with your pinky finger or the actual pivot of the hanger.

Ans: To change bushings on a longboard, first, remove old bushings by popping them out of the truck with a small screwdriver. Now, Pop in new bushing using long nose pliers. Now, Pop in new bushing using long nose pliers. Jan 26, Remove the bushing manually by striking it out with a hammer. This is the most difficult and least effective method for removing the bushing, but if you don’t have a hydraulic or threaded press it will work with some patience.

Be careful not to hit the control arm, focusing each strike on the bushing 83%(22). Bushings are the colorful, rubber-like cylinders located in the center of your trucks. Typically bushings are made out of urethane and the vast majority of longboard skateboard setups use two bushings per truck (four bushings per longboard/skateboard)/5(K).