Originally Posted by Fifty150hs

I wasn't in the machine shop when the machinist did the actual work. I purchased the bushings and if you do it you will see they are larger than the opening they go into on the swing arm. From what I saw at the machine shop he used hose clamps to compress the bushings to the right size before pushing them into place. He had a problem with one of them and I had to get another one as it was damaged when the method he was using to compress slipped but the ram kept moving and totally distorted the bushing.