A guy can’t buy everything so when a new type of tapered bushing connecting rod comes in, I make my own installer. It’s easy enough to remove the old bushing with an appropriate size bushing driver or turn one out. Remove the taper from one side of an old bushing and square it up. Turn two steps on a shaft, one that the old bushing just fits over and against a shoulder and the end step about .010 smaller than the I.D. of new bushing. Weld the clinch joint or even tighten a hose clamp around the modified bushing. The taper from the old bushing will match for pressing the new bushing.
Randy Torvinen
Torvinen’s Machine
Menahga, MN
