I used the ACME screw from a 3-jaw puller along with the jaw nut to pull mine out- I stripped out a grade 8 bolt and nut trying to do it that way. The acme screw threads are much stronger.

I ended up removing one of the spring eye bushings by drilling through the rubber part with the biggest drill bit I could find, and then using one of the little air reciprocating sheetmetal body saws you can get at Harbor Freight to saw a slot in the outer bushing shell. Those things are like a tiny sawzall and they work great. Before I got one of those I would find the right drill bit diameter so I could drill between the inner and outer shell and try to get it centered to trough out the metal, but thats really hard to do well.

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