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Trying to replace the cruddy plastic spindle bushings with bronze metal ones. Has anyone done this and know the size offhand? Everywhere I've looked doesn't have a size that fits I almost thinks its a metric size because a 7/8 outer diameter is a hair too big and 3/4 outer is too small
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If you have access to a lathe, you could turn the bigger ones down...


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Appreciate it lol, gonna have to go on mccmastercar tonight
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Best way to do it is to go to a hardware store with your spindle and rim (with bushings out) and trying it out.

If you have a digital (or analog) caliper, you can measure the inside diameter of your rim and the outside diameter of your spindle and just matching numbers.


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Yeah I just actually got back from trying bushings out at the hardware store, and they are the only ones that carry flange bushings around me...lowes/home depot don't carry them
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What type of rims are you sing? If its a Craftsman ram with the 1 3/8 OD and 3/4" ID I would do sealed bearings.


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Not looking for bearings for the rims I'm trying to replace the bushing on either end of the front axle "tube" where the spindle slides into and is c clipped on
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Ah.

Same principle.


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Yep taking a look through mccmastercar right now to see if they got any
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Try 13/16" bronze bushings then, if they make them idk
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