How do you get out the steering bracket bushing? Just keep hitting it? Or is there a bushing reamer? It is for a 1914.
The vender magazines say they are 1 1/4 long and it takes two. But the one in there now doesn't seem to have a seam making it appear as one. And it seems to be about 3 inches long not 2 1/2 long if two were in it. Any insight?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Bob
When possible I like to use a press to "push" bushings in or out since that way you don't bugger up the faces of them nor distort them. I have often found one long bushing in the steering brackets and I think it may be that the early cars used one long bushing while they cut it into 2 bushings for the later cars. This may be because most of the bushing wear occurs at the bottom bushing or in the case of one long bushing all of the wear is at one end. With 2 bushings I suppose Ford didn't have to replace the whole bushing when only the bottom was wore out. Having 2 bushings provides a cavity between the bushings and that can be packed with grease. Check the bottom end of the steering shaft for a worn surface on one side. You may have to make a small cut on the shaft to true it up. Do that before you buy your bushings so that you can be certain that you have enough metal in the bushing to ream out for a proper fit.
Why not thread a large pipe tap into one end? That should do the trick.
Bob: Jim Golden called me about this problem,it should have 2 bushings but it don't matter, since you live in MD bring it up to my shop and we can fix it for you. Regards ED Henline
I spoke to soon on the above post, the 1914 and earlier apper to have just 1 bushing it is 3/4" bore,1" OD x3 15/16 long. I just came in from the shop after removing it, but parts book calls for 2 bushings, I checked several and found some had 2 and some only 1. Ed Henline
I have this neat little tool that looks like a tap with a threaded hole in the center. You tap this thing into a hole, and put the threaded part in from the other side and whack on it. It was actually made to remove bearings from blind holes - by threading in the puller part it pushed it out from the bottom of the hole. Problem is I have not seen it in months nad dad claims it was returned... Must have sunk into the debris, I'll never see it again.