Re: tranny bushing

["Overly,Edward A." <eoverly@domain.elided>]

Many thanks to Bruce for spending all day with me Sat. helping me replace
the motor mounts on my 83 Spider.



>Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 09:43:18 -0400
>From: "Giller,Bruce C." <bgiller@domain.elided>
>Subject: re: tranny bushing
>
>         I can report that it isn't hard to R&R the tranny bushing whilst the
>tranny remains in the car.  Just loosen the thru bolt, remove the
>support bracket from the car, lower tranny with a jack, remove support
>from tranny, heat up the tranny boss with a propane torch till pretty
>warm, use a punch on either side of the bushing to drive it out.
>Replacing requires some anti-seize on the bushings, heating up the
>tranny boss again, and just hammering away easily with a brass/plastic
>headed hammer.  Just make sure that you get the bushing started in the
>boss without cocking it.  The new bushing slid right in.
>
>         Found that the DPO had tried to restored the function of the failed
>bushing without replacing it.  He/she had stuffed short lengths of
>rubber tubing (they were filled with RTV) into the voids of the bushing
>(top and bottom).
>
>         Didn't take long to do this job.  However the subsequent work at
>replacing the motor mounts ('82 Spider w/o AC) took the rest of the day.
>  Work started at around 8:45 am - we finished at 7:30 pm with no breaks.
>  Paul Spruell's re-inforced units just didn't want to line up for us.
>But one good thing is that we should be much faster on our next replacement!
>
>         Bruce & Ed
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