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sure...(loan out) and as someone just mentioned, upon re-assy...use anti-sieze liberally.
Ha! I think i went through half a bottle putting this '71 back togehter. I've had that bottle for nearly 10+ years and 20(?+) cars and didn't use that much combine!
yep was there, did that. multiple tools hammered in, multiple crowbars even roped together...finally duplicated just in giant size the tool I'd made for extending my steering column, which was this tool. so I have a pair little and big brother
ptegler
yep was there, did that. multiple tools hammered in, multiple crowbars even roped together...finally duplicated just in giant size the tool I'd made for extending my steering column, which was this tool. so I have a pair little and big brother
ptegler
I sent you a PM to consider.
Thank you sir.
David Howard
AllVettes4Me
ok...as in my recent 'new owner' description... a tool to solve a problem.....had the same problem disconnecting this... two 5 ft crowbars would not seperate these. almost pulled the car off the jack stand up on the four post lift!
then I realized most efforts were forcing the joints to act like those Chinese finger torture tubes..as you pull they tighten. Just like trying to pull a vac hose of the nipple rather than push it off.
One of the tools I made...only took too 3-4 hammer blows and it popped right off after having spent two day fighting them. Basically a giant pickle fork.
A piece of angle iron cut as a wedge, then welded together to perfectly fit between rubber edge and top crossmember
giant picklefork to separate diff crossbar bushes
amazingly one cup still had balck paint in it so no air had touched this surface in near 50 years. The other was near solid rust
ptegler
Do you by any chance have some rough dimensions you would be willing to share on this?
Sent a PM to discuss.
Thank you.
David
Plus I do not know how well this seals vertically between the top of the rubber bushing and the sombrero hat.
I suspect mine did not seal well and let water in, to a cavity with no drain.
I believe I will add a layer of silicone in that area on re-assembly to keep Tthe water out. Gotta last another 50 years you know. Well into the era of electric cars where a BB will really be a dinosaur.
Will Smith I Robot movie quote
You mean that thing actually runs on GASOLINE. That stuff's FLAMMABLE!"
I simply slathered the heck out of mine with anti-seize before reassembly
should kill two birds with one stone (water ingress/rust and easy of future separation)
So the next owner to disassemble 30 years from now should have an easy job of it.
ptegler
