Drive shaft bushing puller

Topics Last Day Last Week Tree View    Getting Started Formatting Troubleshooting Program Credits    New Messages Keyword Search Contact Moderators Edit Profile Administration
Model T Ford Forum: Forum 2012: Drive shaft bushing puller
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By ken bechtel on Sunday, May 20, 2012 - 07:26 pm:

I tried just about every socket i own to send it down the drive shaft tube to find it would work on the end of the bushing but would not reach it because of the four rivets. Maybe some shaft tubes are a different ID or shorter rivet heads? So this is what i put together.I forgot to show the plate that rest on the end of the universal joint housing. I made the plate large enough to cover the entire housing so i would not do any damage with just a cross bar. I used a 1/2"x8" bolt, three 7/16 washers welded together and cut the washers to slide past the rivets. worked like a champ! I just wanted to share this very simple tool with anyone who might have the same problem i had .thanks Ken puller


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Sunday, May 20, 2012 - 07:38 pm:

I've used a similar thing to remove and install spring and perch bushings.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Tom Butterworth on Sunday, May 20, 2012 - 07:49 pm:

I just melt the bushing out with a torch . Takes a minute or two . Just did it today and I have a tool to do it .


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By ken bechtel on Sunday, May 20, 2012 - 07:59 pm:

Hi Tom! I tried that also but my bushing had Babbitt poured onto a steel sleeve. The outside of my bushing is stamped ford on it,so they must have made a few different types. Ken


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Doug - Braidwood (glow in the dark), IL on Sunday, May 20, 2012 - 08:28 pm:

Glen Chaffin on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 12:01 pm:
There is no need for a special tool to remove the Drive shaft Bushing. Simply drop a 15/16, 1/5 inch socket down the drive shaft tube so it is resting on the backside of the bushing with the backside of the socket facing up. Then, with the drive shaft standing verticle with the face of the ball squarely in the concrete driveway use the square end of the Drive shaft to drive out both the bushing and the socket. Works every time.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By ken bechtel on Sunday, May 20, 2012 - 09:02 pm:

Sorry Doug! I have different sockets from different manufactures out the kazoo! None will do as you say in my shaft tube, and my tube is all original and unmolested, until now! thanks. Ken


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Glen Chaffin on Sunday, May 20, 2012 - 09:08 pm:

I use a 15/16 Craftsman Socket. Works great.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Walker, NW AR on Sunday, May 20, 2012 - 09:12 pm:

A length of 3/4" pipe works for me, every time. This tip was given to me by my late mentor, Bill Younkin.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ken Todd on Monday, May 21, 2012 - 11:26 am:

I was taught by an old Model T gentleman to just use the drive shaft. Hold the tube vertical, tilt it a bit and drop the drive shaft in, repeat as necessary but tilting the tube in a different direction each time. Usually only takes a few hits to knock the bushing out.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Stephen D Heatherly on Monday, May 21, 2012 - 11:58 am:

If the drive shaft fits in the babbit bushing with little play, I just use the origional bushing. Of course I would only do this if using the FP pinion bearing kit because I would not need the thrust surface on the babbit bushing which is normally badly worn.

Stephen


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By JAMES STARKEY Naperville, IL on Monday, May 21, 2012 - 06:07 pm:

Ken,
After reading a chain of, "You coulda done it different" comments, I'll just say,

"Thank you for taking the time to make the photos & sharing your clever idea! It's simple,cheap to make and it looks very effective".

PS. I have plenty of 5/16" sockets spanning the 1940's to present and each example can have a slightly different O.D. & shape from the next.

Jimmy


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By ken bechtel on Monday, May 21, 2012 - 08:03 pm:

Hi Jimmy! Thanks for your comment. I am fairly new to the Model T and sure wish i knew half as much as a lot of the guys on this fourm! I read a few post on bushing removal and it looked easy enough. but not on my shaft tube! with a little more leg work on this fourm i might have found a similar idea already being used. thanks Ken


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Stan Howe Helena, Montana on Monday, May 21, 2012 - 10:35 pm:

Stephen, IMHO, you still need to have the back of the U Joint up tight against the bushing and pin the U Joint to the drive shaft. No matter whose modern bearing you are using.

I remove the bushing with a 1/18 coarse thread tap threaded into the bushing and then slam an old steering shaft in the driveshaft from the bottom end. Pops it out every time. Glen's idea works if I can find the right socket, seems like every time I try that I get the wrong socket and it jams in there.

RE: removing spring bushings. I use a BIG Allen head bolt with a step the size of the bushing ID turned on the end and the OD of the bolt turned to just go through the hole in the perch. The one for the 26/7 perches is about a 5 incher. I can hold it with a big allen wrench while it is pulling through. I made mine from a fine thread bolt but it's just because that's what I had. Use a brass washer on a 3/4 drive deep well socket big enough for the old bushing to pull inside it. Get out the HD impact wrench and it WILL pull those bushings. I just did a set of them for a Ruckstell I sent to California. I had the impact on the highest setting and it took a bit for them to start moving but they came out finally. I think the vibration of the impact helps. Installing is just as easy, stick the new bushing on the bolt and they are in in a jiffy.


Posting is currently disabled in this topic. Contact your discussion moderator for more information.
Topics Last Day Last Week Tree View    Getting Started Formatting Troubleshooting Program Credits    New Messages Keyword Search Contact Moderators Edit Profile Administration