distributor driveshaft bushing help

[yannick47]

how do i check if the distributor drive shaft bushing is worn?and if i need to change it can i do it while the engines still in the car?if so how do i get it in and out?
thanks

 

[yannick47]

or how do i check if the bushing worn?

 

[yannick47]

no one?

 

[dvw]

how do i check if the distributor drive shaft bushing is worn?and if i need to change it can i do it while the engines still in the car?if so how do i get it in and out?
thanks

Measuring with snap gauge and then mic the shaft on the drive. You can tap the old bushing, then thread a bolt into it and pull it out. Then drive the new one in with a oil pump drive gear. Problems with that. #1 chips of bushing in the motor. # 2 the bushing is usually to tight and needs to be burnished. #3 Nobody has the burnishing tool. #4 Size the bushing by spinning a oil pump drive in it with lube, you can't do that because the cam is in the motor. Why do think it is worn? In your case I would leave it alone.
Doug

 

[RustyRatRod]

No need for a burnishing tool anymore. All of the aftermarket bushings are sized so that when they are pressed into the block, they are the correct size. I don't know how they do it, but that's how they're made. I HAVE the burnishing tool and have installed several aftermarket and factory Chrysler bushings. Only the Chrysler ones needed to be sized after installation. Oh, and Summit DOES carry that tool. They keep it in stock. They only list the tool to fit the small block, but it works just as well for the big blocks and early Hemis too.

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/otc-6293/applications

 

[yannick47]

okey thanks guys and rusty what took you so long?:eusa_eh:

 

[RustyRatRod]

I just now saw it pop up for some reason. Sorry. You can probably wedge a crow's foot under the flange of the old bushing and ease it out. You need to be careful because the flange will break off.

 

[Meep-Meep]

I had no idea about this tool, but when I was in your shoes I just made a tool out of junk - but I do have a machine shop at my disposal. I found out my bushing was very worn by using a big screw driver to twist the gear and I saw it move in ways it shouldn't have. So I pulled the shaft and did some wiggling by hand and sure enough it was toast. My tool uses a 1/4" pipe tap to cut threads into the bushing then a slide hammer with a 1/4 pipe nipple fitted to the end to pull it out. I packed the tap and bushing with grease to keep the chips from going into the engine. Worked slicker than, well, a greased distributor bushing! Installation was just as easy and I used my tool with the guide and a pilot to start it straight and drive it home. This was in my 66 hemi Charger.

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