On upper arms
The ORIGINAL bushings seems well to have been ran into the arm PAST the shoulder if I judge from the steel having been shaved.
So again, are they supposed to be stopped at the shoulder or passed in?
I see on Larry's TBird that the upper arm bushing beside being 50% cheaper than at Bird Nest, do not have the shoulder ???
Now I seem to be too weak to hammer them in any more and the flanges are crushing.
The only way that seems to be left is to use Ford's special tools per the manual. WIt hopes that I can enter them without crushing the flange.
Tools are not really sophisticated, maybe some tubes and rods. So I guess it would be easier to work that the Ford's way.
If anybody has some drawings of the Ford's tools I will be glad to get them !
Or anybody used commercial tools?
I really can not see how Dave can hammer them in so easily. Is there any chance parts has been modified ?
Now this lead to another question.
As I learned it the bad way, the inner sleeve can be tear off.
So how tight do we want the bushings on the inner shafts.
Too loose an d the screws will press on the urethane to make contact on the shafts and make an useless tension.
Too much pressure on the bushing and the inner sleeve will touch the shaft and puyshed back and tear off.
The ORIGINAL bushings seems well to have been ran into the arm PAST the shoulder if I judge from the steel having been shaved.
So again, are they supposed to be stopped at the shoulder or passed in?
I see on Larry's TBird that the upper arm bushing beside being 50% cheaper than at Bird Nest, do not have the shoulder ???
Now I seem to be too weak to hammer them in any more and the flanges are crushing.
The only way that seems to be left is to use Ford's special tools per the manual. WIt hopes that I can enter them without crushing the flange.
Tools are not really sophisticated, maybe some tubes and rods. So I guess it would be easier to work that the Ford's way.
If anybody has some drawings of the Ford's tools I will be glad to get them !
Or anybody used commercial tools?
I really can not see how Dave can hammer them in so easily. Is there any chance parts has been modified ?
Now this lead to another question.
As I learned it the bad way, the inner sleeve can be tear off.
So how tight do we want the bushings on the inner shafts.
Too loose an d the screws will press on the urethane to make contact on the shafts and make an useless tension.
Too much pressure on the bushing and the inner sleeve will touch the shaft and puyshed back and tear off.
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