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Re: Throttle bushings

To: "Charles Ackerman" <C2H60_@email.msn.com>, <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: Throttle bushings
From: "Philip E. Barnes" <peb3@cornell.edu>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 08:21:05 -0400
At 9:02 PM -0700 8/3/98, Charles Ackerman wrote:
>I have a '70 TR6 and I thought I'd replace the "GO" pedal shaft bearings
>since there was alot of play in the throttle linkage. Has anyone done this
>before?
>How do you get the bushings in the firewall? It is impossible!
>I trashed the bushing by cutting them and then cutting a clunk out to
>install them only to find out the hole is to small for the shaft to go
>through.
>My finger tips are sore. What is the wrong?

This is one of those seemingly simple tasks that tries your patience. As
someone else suggested, heat the bushings in a pan of hot water to soften
them a bit. Your fingers will then be sore and burned. When I get one of
these jobs done, I wonder how the poor slob in the factory did it.


--Phil




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