John,
Here is the recipe. Heat some water up in a pan on the stove. Have
the sway bar handy. Drop in the bushings, give them a few minutes to
heat up and soften. Remove them safely and place slide them over the
sway bar. Suprisingly they are not to hot to touch very shortly after
removing them from the water though I had a pair of gloves handy. The
urethane will be pliable and will bend enough to fit over the ends of
the sway bar. You might want to have the sway bar marked for where the
bushings will end up. This method worked for me.
Aaron
Aaron Cropley
71 TR6 (Throttle Body Injection!)
http://www.triumphowners.com/108
Topsham, Maine
-----Original Message-----
From: John Mitchell <jmitch@snet.net>
To: 6 Pack <6pack@autox.team.net>; triumphs@autox.team.net
<triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:54:13 -0500
Subject: Sway bar bushings
I have new urethane bushings for the front swaybar and it looks like
there's no way there gonna slide over the bar ends. Do, I heat them,
slice them or is there some other trick. Bentley makes it sound so
easy, remove and refit. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, John
Mitchell 76 TR6
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