starter bushing - finally fixed

[mkii@nycap.rr.com (Josh20V)]

there is a tool for that oddly enough. :P



Josh Able
www.JsHouseOfEuro.com

brand new euro bumpers!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "T. Reed" <treed2@u.washington.edu>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 2:00 AM
Subject: Re:starter bushing - finally fixed


> [description of how to install a new bushing snipped]
> >
> > There's an easier way...
> >
> > The 12mm triple square fits very snugly inside the brass bushing, and
> > if you give it a couple of solid taps with a hammer, the bushing and
> > tool can easily be rotated out with a 1/2"/13mm...
>
> Thats an interesting technique for /removing/ the bushing (I didn't have
> any trouble getting the old one out with an appropriately sized tap) but
> if you read my message, I was talking about how to install the new
> bushing.
>
> In my case, the new bushing did not fit in to the hole at all - I measured
> with calipers and the bushing O.D. was 0.5mm over the I.D of the hole in
> the tranny. No amount of lube and gentle pressure is gonna make that fit
> (as I found out with my first new bushing which cracked in to a handful of
> tiny pieces after mushrooming its way in to the hole)
>
> Thanks anyway
>
> -Toby
>
>
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