bobbie-g
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Have the Bobtach plate removed from my T180. I have new tapered pins to replace the ones at the bottom of the plate (one on either side). The parts breakdown does not indicate a bushing inside the lower piviot points on the Bobtach plate. Yet I can see there are bushing inserts there. Anyone have any experience with replacing these bushings? I can just reassemble the thing and leave the slop which won't really hurt anything, but is there a way to replace the bushings? One of the bushings is seated flush with the housing, the other protrudes a bit over 1/8". When I removed the plate, there was no side-to-side freeplay between the lift arms. I now have new grease seals, plus the metal "dust shields" that presumably protect the grease seals (the dust shields were missing from the pins when I removed the Bobtach plate). I don't think there's room between the lift arms to put the metal shields in, unless I cut off the protruding bushing back to flush with the Bobtach housing. Ideas? ---RC