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Re: GT V-8 A arm bushings

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Subject: Re: GT V-8 A arm bushings
From: "T. Keith Vezina" <tkvezina@bellsouth.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 18:34:14 -0600
I dip the bushing in DOT5 (silicone) brake fluid and wack it a few times
with a hammer.  They slide right in.


-----Original Message-----
From: David Deutsch <drded@ix.netcom.com>
To: Bud Krueger <bkrueger@ici.net>; Barney Gaylord <barneymg@ntsource.com>
Cc: AEKell@aol.com <AEKell@aol.com>; mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Saturday, March 11, 2000 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: GT V-8 A arm bushings


>I've used c-clamps, bar clamps and vices, dependable upon what was handy at
>that time. Use a little dishwashing soap and press in. When the bushing is
>in as far as will go, reopen the vice (or clamp) and use a socket with
>approx. the same diameter opening as the A-arm and press the bushing into
>the A-arm until centered. I have found that if you put the bushings in the
>freezer the day before installing and remove them when you are ready to
>install, it is much easier to press them in.
>Safety Fast,
>David Deutsch
>
>> > Now you have to ask how to get the new bushings pressed into the arms.
>> >
>> > Barney Gaylord
>> > 1958 MGA with an attitude
>> >     http://www.ntsource.com/~barneymg
>>
>> >
>>
>> Okay Barney, how do you do it?  (I'll be installing them in the TD
>shortly.)
>>
>> --
>> Bud Krueger
>> http://home.ici.net/~bkrueger/
>> 52TD
>> 77MGB
>>
>>
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