The Ford Barn

Dale Fairfax · 09-16-2012, 02:14 PM

Was in a friend's shop yesterday where he's assembling an old '40s hot rod roadster. It was pretty ragged when it came into the shop a couple years ago and he's had to pick up some new bits and pieces. He has a torque tube from a '40 pickup but it needs the seal and bearing at the front end replaced. The bearing sleeve appears to be abnormal. Maybe we both have bad memories but we thought that sleeve (#4655) was a split bushing with about .090 wall thickness. What is in there appears to be a solid bushing with (maybe) .150 wall. (I'm making an extracter tool for him now so we haven't had it in our hand to accurately measure.) Does any of this ring a bell or make sense to anybody?

09-16-2012, 02:14 PM	#1
Dale Fairfax Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 250	Drive shaft bearing sleeve. Was in a friend's shop yesterday where he's assembling an old '40s hot rod roadster. It was pretty ragged when it came into the shop a couple years ago and he's had to pick up some new bits and pieces. He has a torque tube from a '40 pickup but it needs the seal and bearing at the front end replaced. The bearing sleeve appears to be abnormal. Maybe we both have bad memories but we thought that sleeve (#4655) was a split bushing with about .090 wall thickness. What is in there appears to be a solid bushing with (maybe) .150 wall. (I'm making an extracter tool for him now so we haven't had it in our hand to accurately measure.) Does any of this ring a bell or make sense to anybody?