My buddy was kind enough to turn some UHMW (that he donated) into swingarm bushings for Midlife. These bushings are located in the swingarm (vs. the frame), and the stop point inside the tube makes bushing extraction a real pain. The OEM bushings consisted of an inner steel tube surrounded by an elastomeric material with an outer steel tube. The inner tubes had completely separated from the rubber, and not much rubber was left. The remaining outer tubes were very stubborn.
This is one of the tubes after much wrestling.
You can see the shoulder that the bushing butts up against.
There was a spot where the weld from the swingarm assembly penetrated a little too far into the tube. After this shot, a little work with the die grinder and a flap wheel took care of it.
This is the UHMW material that we used. I just cut a couple of pieces off to be chucked into the lathe.
