[TR] Wishbone bushes

[davehogye]

Hi Dave, 
Glad you got them free. I meant to write earlier. 
Chances are the pin under the sleeve is a little rusty and pitted. If you were to cut through the sleeve a little with a dremel or grinder, no real harm would be done. The sleeve does not rotate on the pin. The sleeve is the rotation surface and that's one good reason for the design. The wear surface gets replaced upon servicing. The sleeve gets clamped in place when the pin end supports are installed. 
Note: as a repair manual states, tighten the pin nut against the end support, when the rebuild is complete and the weight of the car is on the suspension. This sets the sleeves in the optimal "loaded" position before tightening. 
When I did mine, I put a piece of bright painters tape on the nut as a reminder. 

// Dave H. 

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From: "David Friedlander" <forzion7 at gmail.com> 
To: "David Porter" <frogeye at porterscustom.com> 
Cc: "Triumphs" <Triumphs at autox.team.net>, "Randall" <TR3driver at ca.rr.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2017 9:21:44 AM 
Subject: Re: [TR] Wishbone bushes 

Thank you everyone for your inputs. The two passenger side bushes 
found themselves drowning in Aerokroil, left overnight, then assaulted 
with a large pipe wrench and "cheater bar." The bushes eventually 
'unscrewed' themselves as I continued to turn the wrench. Free at 
last! Now, where's the Never Seize? 

Though I'm sure the Dremel approach works fine (several of you 
suggested it), I tried this method first as I wasn't sure I trusted 
myself not to cut too deeply with the tool.... 

Thanks again, all. 

Dave 



On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 8:42 AM, David Porter < frogeye at porterscustom.com > wrote: 


I use a fair amount of brute strength, liberally soak with a rust buster and then using the chisel fixture on a pneumatic hammer bully them off. Usually about a minute each. They need to be replaced anyway.. DaveP 




On 7/11/2017 9:51 PM, Randall wrote: 

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I am trying to rebuild my TR3 front suspension and find that, on the 
passenger side, 
the old. steel, inner wishbone bushes (Moss P/N 661-570) don't want to 
come off. 


What I did was to use a Dremel moto-tool and abrasive cutoff blade to cut 
along the length of the bush, most of the way through. Then use a cold 
chisel and BFH to break the cut open. Once it's open, the bush should slide 
off easily. 

-- Randall 


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