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Re: MGA Steering shaft felt bushing

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Subject: Re: MGA Steering shaft felt bushing
From: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 20:41:13 -0700
I think a felt bush was standard for my 66 B, but I used the later B 
nylon bush. Maybe you could do the same.

Robert Arndt or Tricia Blossom had this to say:

>Help!
>MGA '60=How do you replace the upper steering felt bushing and shaft in
>the outer tube?
>I have soaked the felt in oil and graphite and even mashed the felt in
>the vice hoping to compact it to allow the steering shaft to slide thru
>and into the tube.  No go and my patience is thin, much thinner than the
>damn felt bushing!.  And to those of you with repair/restoration=if your
>steering column is snug  leave well enough alone and do not pull the
>inner shaft out of the outter tube!
>Thanks for any/all advice.  Bob
>
>


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the red one with the silver bootlid.


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