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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Apr 2024 Posts: 172 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2024 Posts: 172 | I'm about ready to install a new bushing in the trans tail shaft. My approach is to use something a little softer than the bushing to drive it in. Maybe a piece of oak wood or maybe brass. Any thoughts?
1956 3100 three speed 6 cyl. Stock with a few upgrades.
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 | I just use a socket a little bigger than the outside diameter of the bushing. They're made with a bronze layer inside a steel sleeve- - - -not fragile at all. Use a short extension in the socket and a heavy dead blow mallet to do the driving. I've installed dozens of output bushings and torque converter bushings that way when I was rebuilding a lot of automatic transmissions- - - -haven't ruined one yet!
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
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| | | | | Joined: Dec 2012 Posts: 121 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2012 Posts: 121 | A parts store may loan or rent you a bushing tool.
A few years ago I borrowed a tool (compression tester?) from a local store and was stunned to learn it was free. Just had to leave a credit card number as collateral.
“Ye have not because ye ask not” 😉
gld | | | | | Joined: Apr 2024 Posts: 172 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2024 Posts: 172 | Jerry and Greg. Thanks very much. I've used the socket driver before but haven't done a bushing in a very long time.
1956 3100 three speed 6 cyl. Stock with a few upgrades.
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