Starter Issues

[ruckman101]

A pox on all of your dire dark black energy!

Breathe deeply of white light energy, surround yourself with the purity, feel the breeze from the angelic wings flapping.

I'll just poke my pinky finger in there and the old bushing will slip right out. The new one will be a bit snugger, but tap right in. Can I have more of those brownies?


neal

[hambone]

What if the old bushing isn't that bad? Would one go to hell for not replacing it?
I seem to recall hearing about using some sort of puller for this job.

[LiveonJG]

What if the old bushing isn't that bad? Would one go to hell for not replacing it?
I seem to recall hearing about using some sort of puller for this job.

Just replace the bushing and do the job right. And yes you will go to hell. Ten Commandments, Section 7.5, Addendum C:

THO SHALT ALWAYS REPLACE THE BUSHING.

A puller might help, I just busted mine out.

-John

[ruckman101]

Fortunately had just the right sized tap, and once bottomed, pulled that pesky old bushing right out. Slick.


neal

[DjEep]

yup, you use a tap, screwed into the bushing metal, which pushes against the engine case ear to pull it out.

[hambone]

That is a great idea. I really need a nice set of taps and dies.

[ruckman101]

Sheesh, seems I remember reflecting on how much easier this bushing replacement would be with the engine out. Imagine my elation at extracting the old bushing with the tap. Imagine how short lived that elation can be when, while trying to get the new bushing in place, my fumble fingers drop it and then it disappears, apparently down a gap near the flywheel and into the bell housing. It certainly didn't hit the ground.

I could fish about with a wire, but that seems a task of futility, success dependent entirely on a ton of GOOD LUCK that it would seem I'm in short supply of.

Out she comes unless someone has a better idea.

At least getting the thermostat flap assembly reattached to the thermostat with circlips will be an easier task.


neal

[hambone]

CRAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
Man I feel for ya. Maybe it would benefit those of us cursed by fumbly fingers to patch the bellhousing gaps with duct tape first.

I'll bet the engine only has to come away from the trans enuff to get your grubby fingers in there. Still a PITA.

BTW how many times did I say "CIRCLIP" last nite? I lost count.
Hang in there man.

[ruckman101]

I wasn't even aware of the possibility that a piece of duct tape could have saved me from until it was done.


neal

[hambone]

Once I put together my entire brakes to proudly see the springs still lying on the ground. It happens.

[ruckman101]

Racking the noggin, and no alternative springs to mind. Brass, so magnet is out, ach!


neal

[LiveonJG]

That sucks Neal.

It really does.

Just separate the engine & trans till there's enough room to grab the bushing, no need to drop the engine.

-John

[Hippie]

Dammit

[ruckman101]

Dammit

Manomanomanoman can I relate to your avatar at the moment Hippie.



neal

[midatlanticys]

Racking the noggin, and no alternative springs to mind. Brass, so magnet is out, ach!

Neal, do you have one of these 4 fingered willie picker upper thingamabob's ?? . . . .reaches into inaccessible, awkward places.
http://www.ttcuk.com/ullman-m16---flexi ... 1643-p.asp . . . three minutes of calm patience and you'll have it back!!

. . . . . sometimes a rag nudged gently into a deep/dark cavity can save your bushing!!