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Post by chihuahuas on Apr 25, 2013 21:51:11 GMT -5
I need to insert a new bushing on a variator that has 500 miles on it. Yupp it wobbles to much. Can you buy those things.  |
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Post by alleyoop on Apr 25, 2013 22:02:25 GMT -5
What kind of Variator have you got? All the Variators I have seen have no bushing that you can take out and replace. You have to buy the whole Variator with the backplate as one.
Alleyoop
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Post by carasdad on Apr 25, 2013 22:47:13 GMT -5
Tractor Supply company and other farm supply businesses sell them. But all I have ever seen are SAE not metric. But then also I have never seen one you can remove as they are like Arbor pressed in..or one piece heated the other frozen and pressed in? Not sure how it's done..but in all my years working on these scoots..I have yet to see one that comes. You may find one at Grainger they carry metric bushings. Just look for 'Bronze oil lite bushing'...  |
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Post by chihuahuas on Apr 25, 2013 23:13:34 GMT -5
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Post by carasdad on Apr 25, 2013 23:19:23 GMT -5
Wow! Have NEVER seen that before..were they hard to press out? But then never seen replacement bushing either...times have changed since you and I were young. Remember when mechanics fixed stuff?...now they just swap out parts..  It breaks...ya don't fix it..just buy a new one and plug our landfills with a repairable item...  |
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Post by chihuahuas on Apr 25, 2013 23:36:46 GMT -5
Couple of taps with a socket and a hammer.
On these scooters the original parts are better than the replacements. I save the old stuff and use it to fix the new stuff. Ha.
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Post by tvnacman on Apr 26, 2013 11:01:35 GMT -5
If it is stock variator , I have a few variator sets that I split for parts .
I thought it was for a 150cc not a 50cc . I have stock and proformance variators for the 50cc .
John
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Post by rockynv on Apr 26, 2013 22:08:56 GMT -5
You need to go to an industrial supply that sells bearings and sheeves. The should be able to measure the parts up and look up the Boston Bronze, Sintered Bronze or Oilite bushing from the general catalog. The bushing material may only be available in a 6 inch or 12 inch stock length that you will have to cut to the length that you require or you may have to purchase a blank and have a local machine shop mill it down for you (cheaper just to buy a new variator then). The either used bright brass or dried out Oilite in your variator or possibly somone cleaned it in a solvent and washed out the Oilite causing it to fail.
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Post by chihuahuas on Apr 26, 2013 23:17:26 GMT -5
It's wierd, all the aftermarket variators have bushing wearout fast. Somethings up. I don't know what. I have started using Fluid Film on the remaining variators I am using. Will see if that helps keep the bushing from wearing out. This stuff is the BomB www.fluid-film.com/ |
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..BAD TO THE BONE..
It breaks...ya don't fix it..just buy a new one and plug our landfills with a repairable item... 
