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Re: Rear Bushings: Can I Do Them at Home?[200/75] posted by gregg on
Saturday, 7 October 2000, at 5:35 p.m.
Ray
I live in new york city--not a hospitipal place to do work on the brick.
In the summer we run away to the Adirondacks and I try to do as much of the repairs then to get thruogh the winter.
Anyway, almost all the bushings seem to have a direction to them. In the case of the big ones, there is a small triangle marking in the rubber that needs to point down, apparently to allow the strain to project into the thinner or at least less dense portion of the rubber. Look closely and you will see that it is not uniform throughout.
One piece of additional advice I left out ---in between the two big rings that the bushing goes in, I fashioned a crude sort of hemispherical(sp?) spacer out of pieces of 3/4 plywood with a bandsaw so that any pressure applied by THE TOOL IMPOSTER would not collapse them out of line.
Good Luck Let me know how it works out!
G
--gregg