Hacksaw the old bushing to relieve the pressure...
You need to take the hacksaw apart and slide the blade through the rocker.Then put the hacksaw back together and have at it!
Don't cut into the rocker...check often...
Started it going with the chisel...
Then it tapped right out...
Freezin' the "new" bushing...(I don't think this does anything)
Easy bake...to heat up the rocker...
(I don't think this does anything either)
Done to a turn...
Using an old rocker stud and a socket to press it in...
Modern tooling...a vise, an old rocker stud, a socket and a fork tube!
In she goes...
Fix complete...
Installed and Rockin'!
I had one bad rocker bushing in a fork I was putting together for Tyler's Panhead. I had a good used (or maybe NOS) bushing to replace it with. Rather then bother someone at a shop with a press, I decided to go crude and do it the way I would have as a youth. (See Above).
It worked like a charm and cost $0.00! I heated the rocker and froze the bushing but I don't think that did much to help...the shit was room temp again by the time I fired up the "press"...I mean vise...
Sometimes I amaze myself...crude but effective...
