"Bugfuel" > wrote in message
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> > If I would like to hone bushings whats the best technique?
> >
> > cheers!
> >
> > carles
>
> I honestly don't know. I decided to never even attempt doing them
> myself. Too many things can go wrong. At the very minimum you need a
> solid fixture and drill press or something for the hole so that you get
> the hole absolutely straight and true, and 90 degree angle.
>
> Buy new, or have a machine shop do them. Just don't bother.
>
>

................My dad use to do it by hand back when I was a kid and I think
that his technique was from way back in the old days maybe even in the 20's
& 30's because he told me once that he learned from someone back when he was
a teenager. What he did though was use very fine emery paper on the wrist
pin instead of honing the bushing. It's pretty simple.

Here it is:
.....Put some masking tape on the ends of the wrist pin where it seats in the
piston. Roll the pin on an ink pad to stain the center section that's not
taped. Remove the ink on the pin with the emery paper without rubbing any
area where the ink is no longer visible. Take the rod/bushing after removing
the tape from the pin and do a trial fit. If it's still too tight, start
over. If it gets too loose, start over with a new pin. I remember that it
was time consuming and that I wasn't trusted to do it because I was an 11
year old goofball kid.