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Mysterytrain Mysterytrain is offline
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I have used the 928 sleeve in the past. It works but it was not overly snug and wanted to work itself back out. After pulling the steeriing wheel and reseating the bushing a few times I decided to replace it with a new bearing. The job was a pain and required a mix of madness to remove. I used Chuck's method of drilling a hole in the base column tube to punch out the old bearing. This is tricky because the hole needs to be angled so that you have clearance for a punch to lay almost parallel to the column. I had to bend a tool from an old long screw driver. Unfortunately, only the inner race came out and then I needed to use a tiny diamond grinder bit in a dremel to cut thru the outer race...man that ***** has some serious hardness.
A couple of cautions. You need to be careful swinging the hammer because you can easily make a mess of the dash. You might want to plan the location of hole based on the tool and swing clearance before you drill. Its really tight down there and I found if difficult to be able to give the punch the good whack that the job required. When using the grinder..think like a dentist so you don't muck up the steering shaft or the column housing.
Also, didn't I read somewhere that someone made their own plastic bushing from a spray paint cap or something like that??
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Last edited by Mysterytrain; 07-11-2008 at 08:17 PM..
Old 07-11-2008, 08:11 PM
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