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Seized swing are bushing
- Thread starter WPGxs650_brat
- Start date
This is a very good article on the subject.
http://www.xs650.com/threads/installing-bronze-swingarm-bushings-and-setting-sideplay.51077/
Looking at your photo. I’m pretty sure your problem is the pivot tube is seized inside your bushings.
Here are the components separated.
Just from what I can see in your photo, I think you probably do have the original plastic bushings. The bronze bushings have a collar on them and I’m not seeing any in your photo. Those pivot tubes can be a bear to pound out of there some times. I haven’t had to do it, but I’ve read accounts by others that had to beat on them with a big hammer and some sort of drift. Heat would probably still help, but you may have to get primitive with it.
http://www.xs650.com/threads/installing-bronze-swingarm-bushings-and-setting-sideplay.51077/
Looking at your photo. I’m pretty sure your problem is the pivot tube is seized inside your bushings.
Here are the components separated.
Just from what I can see in your photo, I think you probably do have the original plastic bushings. The bronze bushings have a collar on them and I’m not seeing any in your photo. Those pivot tubes can be a bear to pound out of there some times. I haven’t had to do it, but I’ve read accounts by others that had to beat on them with a big hammer and some sort of drift. Heat would probably still help, but you may have to get primitive with it.
WPGxs650_brat
XS650 Enthusiast
Thanks. Ya it' stuck cock stiff. I'l try more heat and hammer tomorrow.
I thought out west they say "get western with it".
I agree the bushings you have are weird. Maybe what's left of plastic bushings. I would see if I could scratch them or carve them, if so they're plastic. If they're plastic, just get a propane torch and melt the s*** out of them and tap the pivot tube on out.
WPGxs650_brat
XS650 Enthusiast
They are not plastic. Looks like braided steel in the middle.
I' the the process of freezing it! Then beating the crap out of it! I'm making progress (1/2-3/4" so far). I tried the impact trick. Stripped the bolts both times!
Original plastic bushings have a lip on them too, just like the bronze replacements, but the plastic ones are black in color. Yours look goldish so may be bronze with the lip broken off.
A tool I employ sometimes with success is an air chisel with a blunt rod tip, great for impacting stuck shafts out. No one seems to have mentioned the penetrating oil, you'll want lots of that applied too, along with the heat.
A tool I employ sometimes with success is an air chisel with a blunt rod tip, great for impacting stuck shafts out. No one seems to have mentioned the penetrating oil, you'll want lots of that applied too, along with the heat.
WPGxs650_brat
XS650 Enthusiast
after a lot of heat and hate with the hammer success. I'd bet a dollar its never seen grease since the factory!
Yay! We love a success story. You just never know what you’re going to get. I just did the bushings on my 46 year old XS2. I was prepared for an experience like yours but it slid out using just my finger tips. Looked like the day it was born. Congratulations!
WPGxs650_brat
XS650 Enthusiast
looks like plastic with steel brad in the middle. from how bad it was seized, I'd bet what ever t is, It's the original
