Needl roller swing arm pivot

5twins · Full Member Joined: Aug 05, 2006 Posts: 1616

If you have the original bushes, they'll be plastic. Most guys either burn them out with a torch (ruins paint job) or cut slits in them with a hacksaw blade which relieves their tension and they almost fall out. Personally, on the several I've done, I just drove them out with a length of pipe slightly smaller than the bushing I.D. They all came out easy.

jimmythetrucker · Full Member Joined: Mar 12, 2008 Posts: 1283

5twins -- can you be a little more explicit with that method? Do you mean slightly LARGER than the bushing ID? If the driver pipe is SMALLER than the bushing ID, it will just slip inside the bushing and not drive anything -- won't it? Also, how are you driving the bushing OUT? Are you pushing a long pipe through from, say, the LEFT side to drive out the right-side bushing?

Forgive me if I sound dumb: I'm just trying to visualize what you wrote in my head and I can't seem to get the picture.

Thanks for the help.

Jimmy

5twins · Full Member Joined: Aug 05, 2006 Posts: 1616

The pipe needs to be slightly smaller than the bushing I.D. so you can fit it in one side, reach across, and catch the inner edge of the bushing on the other side. Work your way around it, driving it out. The pipe needs to be small enough so you can c*** it slightly in the 1st bushing and catch the edge of the one on the far side. Once that one's out, the remaining one is even easier because there's no bushing to pass through on the one side anymore.

jimmythetrucker · Full Member Joined: Mar 12, 2008 Posts: 1283

5twins -- I got the picture now. It don't even need to be a pipe, does it? A long, narrow-gage stove bolt would do just as well -- maybe even better 'cuz the end is threaded so it'll catch the rim of the bushing better.

Good idee, friend. Thanks for the tip.

Jimmy

jimmythetrucker · Full Member Joined: Mar 12, 2008 Posts: 1283

5twins -- About bolts as swingarm tools -- somebody somewhere mentioned taking the swingarm to a shop to have the new bushes pressed in. But that ain't necessary, is it? Just take a long bolt with a large flat washer on the head end. Push the bolt through the swingarm galley and then through the new bushing. Then put a flat washer and a nut on the end and press the new busing into place by twisting the nut down with a spanner.

Hot damn! We're smart around here, ain't we? Wink

Jimmy

5twins · Full Member Joined: Aug 05, 2006 Posts: 1616

Yes, you can use a long bolt or all-thread rod to draw the bushings into place. Just take care that the threads don't mar the insides of the bushing. I would place the pivot sleeve inside the bushing to protect it and use a bolt or threaded rod that fits inside that. Marks inside the pivot tube won't hurt anything because once mounted, it and the swingarm bolt through it don't move. Once the bushing is almost all the way in, you can finish the install with a block of hardwood and a big hammer.

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