Had that anoying "knock" from the RHS rear of the car when going over potholes in the road, so time to replace the lower shock absorber bushes.
Read plenty of threads on here to either do them on the car or on the bench, i decided to do them on the car. I used a piece of scaffold pole cut down to 75mm as the receiver and a 1 1/8 socket as the pusher, together with a piece of high tensile studding. I read on here to tension the spring first before undoing the lower bolt, then I used a jack to raise the swing arm just enough so it wasn't lifting the car off the axle stands. Release the bottom bolt and pulled the shocker down far enough to clear the swing arm and allow me to fit my home made tool. Used plenty of PLUSGAS before and during the removal process. Took about 10mins to get the bush fully out, didn't put up much of a fight i'm glad to say. Cleaned the shocker and used Copper Slip to help the new bush in, again only 10mins to push the new one in. The other side exactly the same process. Test drive proved no more knocks over potholes. For anybody thinking of doing this task in the near future and not sure wether to remove the shocker or do it in situ....this shows it can be done fairly easy on the car.
Thanks to the members who posted earlier threads, your tips really do shave loads off the time and prevent the fear of doing it yourself.