[Healeys] Pilot/spigot bush

[Chris Dimmock]

I found one of those old glass bottle & Bakelite spray gun attachments from
the 1960's used to spray paint with a vacuum cleaner.
Araldited up the holes, and made it into a vacuum bottle.
Drop the bearing into the bottle full of oil, and connect a vacuum
cleaner.....
You can install the bearing about one minute later....

Sent from my iPhone

> On 16 Apr 2014, at 9:50 pm, "BJ8Healeys" <sbyers at ec.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, it's sintered bronze.  I recently replaced the spigot bush.  I put the
> new one in a small pot of engine oil and heated it until air bubbles came
> out of the bushing and then stopped.  Then I let it sit a couple days in
the
> oil before installing.
>
> Steve Byers
> HBJ8L/36666
> BJ8 Registry
> AHCA Delegate at Large
> Havelock, NC USA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Elton Schulz
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 12:03 AM
> To: Healey List
> Subject: [Healeys] Pilot/spigot bush
>
> Fellow Listers,
> I'm replacing the pilot or spigot bush that sits in the end of the
> crankshaft where the transmission input shaft rides on. Is this bronze bush
> one of those sintered bronze bushings that needs to soak in hot oil for a
> day or so?
> Thanks,
> Elton, BJ7 in progress
> ________________________________