Gear lever bush

Message

KitchenSync · #1 Post by **KitchenSync** » Mon May 19, 2014 9:22 pm

My gear lever's floppier than (insert simile here).

Has you ever knocked out the bush and replaced it? I suppose it might be a standard size - any references for what they are so I can order one in?

Otherwise it's a special order!

Ta

#2 Post by **mangocrazy** » Mon May 19, 2014 10:04 pm

It's not listed separately, just as part of the gear lever (which is an eye-watering £73.17 list price...)

You could always try getting the bush built up with weld and then machined down to the correct diameter. But there is always the possibility that the lever will distort from the heat.

Alternatively press the old bush out and get a new one machined up and pressed in. But I doubt either approach will be simple or cheap.

HisNibbs · #3 Post by **HisNibbs** » Mon May 19, 2014 10:15 pm

It's a ball bearing. If you find a replacement bearing catalog number I'd like to know it too.

KitchenSync · #4 Post by **KitchenSync** » Mon May 19, 2014 11:47 pm

It's a bronze(?) bush.

I just so happen to be at my Dad's for a few days - maybe I can persuade him to power up his lathe and make one up. I'll post the dimensions if I do.

#5 Post by **mangocrazy** » Tue May 20, 2014 9:11 pm

Dads with lathes are worth their weight in bronze, methinks...

HisNibbs · #6 Post by **HisNibbs** » Tue May 20, 2014 9:43 pm

KitchenSync wrote:It's a bronze(?) bush.

I just so happen to be at my Dad's for a few days - maybe I can persuade him to power up his lathe and make one up. I'll post the dimensions if I do.

Better still get him to make two or three...