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[Haggis]

The bushes seem to be the same across most years? I fitted them to a modern EFI uce Enfield to replace the now standard plastic bushes. They push in untill they meet in the middle with only a couple of mm proud of the swingarm tube.

[jack clegg]

Ah yes. Early Inters had spacers. Later models did not. Should have guessed from the copper slip squidged out under the offside assembly. The bush ends still protrude far too much. Either they are too long, or not fully home.

[SteveT2]

I’ve took the swing arm off the bush protrudes approx 3.5 mm either side? Does this seem correct? Does Avery thing seem ok in the pictures.... with the swing arm out the frame goes back to the alloy gearbox bracket with no gap .. thoughts

[p]

Can you "feel" down the centre of swinging arm with a bit of bent wire to check if spacers meet? You can put a length of studding through with a nut on either end to pull it together if not.... use sockets to pull on outer of metalastic.

[SteveT2]

Just checked.... yes they are tight up and meet up in the middle

[SteveT2]

I have a sneaky feeling the bushes will need to come out

[tribonnie]

So if the bushes are pressed tight against the inner spacer, the two top hat spacer are the right way round (the small diameter on the spacer pressed into the large holes on the frame) and the bottom engine plates and spacers tightn up correctly the yes ...... looks like bushes are too long. If so you could “carefully” angle grind the inner part of the metalastic bush to give you the correct fitting. Take it easy so as not to melt the rubber.

[SteveT2]

That might be worth a go
Just looking through the parts books for different years, guess what a 64 uses different bushes to a 63 mine is a 63 but thinking they are maybe the wrong bushes (64), my fault.... When I took the parts in for powder coating I didn't think to ask for the old bushes back.
Now the problem if I go down that route, A/ what year is the swingarm? B/ How do I ID the year of the swingarm to order the correct bushes
Live and learn, maybe

[Wheaters]

Rather than grinding away at the outer edges, which includes rubber, can you not pull the bushes out, take some material off the inner edges, then put them back?

[Adrian]

Another option, less brutal than an angle grinder - clamp the swinging arm firmly in a vice (using whatever protection you need to preserve the new powder-coating), mark off 1.5mm on each end of the protruding inner section of each bush, and apply one or more of these?

A.



Picture from ebay