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MG Pilot Bushing
Removal and installation
Les Bengtson
The pilot bushing is an “oil impregnated bronze bushing” located in the back of the crankshaft. Its function is to keep the transmission first motion shaft (input shaft) in alignment with the centerline of the crankshaft. It is normally inspected when the clutch is being replaced. It is normally replaced as part of an engine rebuild. It may, however, be desirable to replace the pilot bushing when only replacing the clutch if you do not know the history of the bushing (how many years has it been in service), or if you find the bushing loose in the end of the crankshaft, or if the inside of the bushing is scored or grooved. Simply cleaning the interior of the bushing and running a finger inside it will tell you if there has been scoring or grooving inside the bushing. Trying to remove it with the finger will tell you if it is loose enough to fall out. I have seen both over the years. Under any of these conditions, you may decide to replace the pilot bushing. This article should tell you how to do so.
Pilot Bushings
There are three basic sizes of pilot bushings used in the MGB. The Mark I cars used one with a smaller internal hole than the Mark II onwards cars because the input shaft of the three syncro gearboxes was smaller. The inside hole of the pilot bushing, when fitted to the crankshaft, is about .002” to .005” larger than the outside diameter of the first motion shaft. Each strand of hair on your head will measure about .002” or slightly larger.
On the Mark II and later cars, the same basic bushing was used. On the “G” series cars, this bushing was 1 ½” long. On the 18V engines, the length of the bushing was reduced to about 1”. The longer bushing cannot be used with the 18V crankshafts, but several people have reported fitting the shorter pilot bushing to the earlier engines. Ideally, however, you should use the longer bushing with the earlier crankshafts.
Pilot bushings should be soaked in engine oil for about 24 hours before being installed. I use a small pill bottle with a tight fitting cap to soak my bushings. Prior to installation, wipe the bushing dry. The oil should have soaked into the bronze of the bushing.
Pilot Bushing Removal
There are special pilot bushing removal tools available. These can, sometimes, be rented from tool suppliers. Some auto parts stores have these tools available for use without cost. (You do, however, have to leave a significant deposit, returned when the tool is returned in good condition.)
Since the special tools are not always available, nor are they always available when you need them, hobbyists have developed an alternate method of removing the pilot bushing. One which works quite well.
The first step is to make sure the engine or crankshaft is securely supported. I like to have the engine sitting on a small bench at about waist height. The rear of the crankshaft is cleaned thoroughly then, the opening in the pilot bushing and the area behind it is filled with thick grease. Use the heaviest grease you can find. Axle grease seems to work fine, but the older style grease, which was much thicker, worked better.
When the interior cavity is fully packed with grease, insert a tight fitting punch, put a rag around the area to keep the grease from splattering, hold the punch in one hand and strike the other end with a heavy hammer using medium force. (Note, you may have to remove the punch and insert more grease as the grease is compacted.) A heavy hammer, swung with medium force is both more effective and more easily controlled than a light hammer striking a heavy blow. You want a hammer somewhat heavier than the type normally used for removing and replacing the center spinners of wire wheels. I use a small “hand sledge hammer” for driving the bushings in and out.
With several blows, the grease will be forced inwards into the crankshaft cavity, forcing the pilot bushing out. The initial blows of the hammer may cause the drift to displace air pockets which were not filled with grease. In this case, remove the drift, pack in some more grease and begin again. Eventually, the pilot bushing will be pushed free of the crankshaft recess. Remove the loose pilot bushing, clean the interior cavity well then, get ready to insert the new bushing.
Inserting the New Pilot Bushing
Wipe off all of the excess oil from the bushing. I then use an aluminum collar, slipped over the end of the drift, to drive the bushing back into the cavity in the crankshaft. This allows the punch to drive the bushing all the way back against the stop ridge in the crankshaft on the 18V engines. Not all of the earlier engines have this ridge. You can also use a small block of hard wood against the rear face of the bushing and tap the bushing into place by hammer blows to the wood. This leaves the bushing standing slightly higher then it should be and you have to gently try to tap it fully home without damaging the rear end. A properly sized (outside size) socket can be used to do this, normally, without any damage to the bushing.
After the bushing is installed, run your finger around the inner, rear edge(by this I mean the rear edge in relation to the engine—the portion visible to you after the bushing is installed and make sure no burrs have been raised. There should not have been. If any burrs have been raised, remove them with a fine, circular needle file. At that point, you are finished and ready to either install the flywheel or install the clutch to the flywheel. If you had removed the flywheel for resurfacing, clean the holes for the flywheel bolts with a good organic solvent, clean the bolt threads install the bolts using a drop of blue, medium strength, Loc-Tite on each bolt and use a new locking tab for the bolts. I have seen old, re-used locking tabs break, allowing the flywheel bolts to back outwards. Thus, the “belt and suspenders” approach works best.
If the Drift Method Does Not Work
There are a few times when the grease and drift method do not work. Usually, this is when a Dreaded Previous Owner has secured the bushing into the crankshaft using some form of chemical bonding compound. If the bushing does not come out due to the hydraulic force of the grease, the next step is to use a pilot bushing removal tool. This may, or may not, work. If the pilot bushing cannot be removed by ordinary means, it must be removed by extraordinary means—lathe turning.
In lathe turning, the crankshaft must be removed from the engine and mounted in a lathe. The front end of the crankshaft goes into the headstock chuck of the lathe and the rear end is supported by a three position steady rest. A boring bar, preferably made of high speed steel rather than carbide, is then used to bore out the old bushing, leaving the interior surface of the crankshaft undamaged. This, however, is so unusual that I have never seen it required and have only read about it once. All of the pilot bushings I have had to remove over the years have come out, easily, with the grease and drift method.
This monograph may be reproduced only for non-commercial use without other permission of the author. Reproduction for commercial use only by written permission.
Copyright © 2004 by Les Bengtson
WindowsMac
You can use tab stops to create easy-to-format documents. By using document layout options in Word, you can create, for example, a table of contents or an index without setting a single tab stop.
Word also provides predesigned table, header and footer, cover page, and other page layout options. These options make adding tab stops unnecessary.
Tip: To accommodate different versions of Word, many procedures refer to 'on the Home tab.' For Word 2016, you also can use the Layout tab. For Word 2013, Word 2010, and Word 2007, you also can use the Page Layout tab.
Learn about tab stops
Regardless of which version of Word you're using, the procedure for setting (adding) tab stops on the horizontal ruler is the same. By default, there are no tab stops on the ruler when you open a new blank document. There is, however, default tab spacing set at every half inch.
Before you begin setting (adding) tab stops, you might want to become familiar with the Tab Selector and the available tab stops.
The Tab Selector is the small box at the leftmost edge of the ruler. You can click through the Tab Selector to discover each tab described next.
Left Tab | Text is aligned to the right of the tab stop. |
Center Tab | Text is centered as you type. |
Right Tab | Text is right aligned and extends to the left. |
Decimal Tab | Numbers are aligned to the left of the decimal. You can't use the Decimal Tab to align numbers around a different character, such as a hyphen or an ampersand symbol. |
Bar Tab | Text isn't positioned with a Bar Tab. Instead, a vertical bar is inserted at the tab position. |
First Line Indent | Located at the top of the ruler, the First Line Indent lets you indent the text in the first line of a paragraph. |
Hanging Indent | Located at the bottom of the ruler, the Hanging Indent lets you indent the text in the second line of the paragraph and all lines thereafter. |
Set tabs on the ruler
A quick way to set a tab stop in your document is to choose a tab stop and click the location on the ruler where you want the tab to appear.
- At the leftmost edge of the ruler, click the tab stop in the Tab Selector you want, and then click the location on the ruler where you want to set the tab.Note: Don't see the ruler at the top of your document? Click View > Ruler. And if you want to see the tab stop characters in your document, on the Home tab, choose Show/Hide .
Tips
- To move a tab you've set, drag it to a new location on the ruler.
- To identify the precise location where you set a tab stop, double-click the tab. The Tabs dialog box opens and shows the precise location in the Tab stop position box.
- To confirm the alignment for text you created with the tab stops you set, press Tab.
- When multiple paragraphs are selected only the tabs from the first paragraph show on the ruler.
Clear tab stops on the ruler
You can quickly remove any tab stop you set on the horizontal ruler.
Note: If you don’t see the ruler at the top of your document, click View > Ruler. If you don’t see the tab stop character in your document, on the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click Show/Hide .
- Drag a tab stop from the ruler to remove it.Note: When you release the mouse button, the tab stop disappears and your text moves to the next tab location or to the default tab spacing, set at every half inch.
The image below shows text aligned to tab stops that were added to the document—a right-aligned tab stop at .75 inches and a left-aligned tab stop at 1.25 inches.
After tab stops are removed, the text moves to the default tab locations of every half inch as shown in the next image.
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Set tabs in the Tabs dialog box
You can set tabs by using the Tabs dialog box. By using the Tabs dialog box, you get more precise tab positions and also can insert a specific character (leader) before the tab.
- On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click the Paragraph dialog box launcher, and then click Tabs.
- In the Tab stop position box, enter the position (measurement) on the ruler where you want to set the tab stop.
- Under Alignment, choose Left, Center, Right, Decimal, or Bar.
- Under Leader, choose 1 None, 2 dots, 3 dashes, or 4 underline to set—in the case of options 2, 3, and 4—a series of characters that links, for example, a section title with a page number.
- Click Set > OK.
Clear tabs in the Tabs dialog box
You can clear all tab stops you set, or just clear one or more.
- On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click the Paragraph dialog box launcher, and then click Tabs.
- Choose one of the following:
- To clear a single tab stop, in the Tab stop position list, choose a tab stop position, click Clear, and then click OK.
- To clear all tab stops, click Clear All > OK.
You also can use Find and Replace to clear tabs. See Remove the default tab spacing for details.
Add an indent
You can add a first-line indent or a hanging indent. By using a first-line indent, you can set off the first line of text in a paragraph and let all lines that follow align left. With a hanging indent, the second line of text in a paragraph and all the following lines are indented more than the first line.
- Do one of the following:
- Drag the First Line Indent at the top of the ruler to the location where you want the first line of a paragraph to begin.
- Drag the Hanging Indent at the bottom of the ruler to the location where you want the second line of the paragraph and all lines thereafter to begin.
Note: If you don't see the ruler at the top of your document, click View > Ruler.
Use decimal tabs to line up numbers with decimal points
When you work with numbers, setting a decimal tab makes numbers, such as amounts of currency, align correctly in a column.
- If you don’t see the ruler at the top of your document, click View, then check the Ruler box.
- Click the tab selector on the left end of the ruler a few times until you see the decimal tab: .
- Click on the ruler where you want the decimal point to be. You can move this later by clicking and dragging it.Tip: If you double-click the decimal tab in the ruler, the Tabs box appears with more options. You can add more tabs with this box or by clicking the ruler.
- Click the document where you want to type a number and press the Tab key. As you type the number, the decimal point aligns on the tab. Do it again on the next line and the numbers will center on the decimal point.
If you want to use a separator other than a decimal point, you can choose a separator by using Control Panel in Windows.
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Note: Changing this setting affects every number format, not just the formats used in Word.
- Click the Start button > Control Panel > Clock, Language, and Region.
- In the Region dialog box, select the Formats tab and then select Additional Settings.
- In the Customize Format dialog box, select the Numbers tab and in the Decimal symbol drop-down, select the separator you want to use and then click OK.
Add leaders between tab stops
Leaders are those special characters—dots, dashes, underlines—that create a visual link between tab stops. Most often, leaders are used in a table of contents or an index.
Note: If you want to use tab stops and leaders to format a table of contents, consider using Word to create a table of contents automatically.
- Type the text that you want to appear before the leader.
- On the horizontal ruler, set the tab stop that you want, and then double-click it.
- In the Tabs dialog box, under Leader, choose 1 None, 2 dots, 3 dashes, or 4 underline to set a series of characters—in the case of option 2, 3, and 4—to create a link between tab stops.
- Click OK, and then press Tab.
Tip: When you press Enter to start a new line, the formatted tab stop is available.
Change the spacing between the default tab stops
If you set manual tab stops, the default tab stops are interrupted by the manual tab stops that you set. Manual tab stops that are set on the ruler override the default tab stop settings. Remember that default tab stops are set at every half inch.
- On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click the Paragraph dialog box launcher.
- In the Paragraph dialog box, click Tabs.
- In the Tabs dialog box, in the Default tab stops box.
- Enter the amount (a unit of measure) of space you want between tab stops.
- Click the up or down arrow and select a standard unit of measure (for example, .4').
- Click OK.
Remove the default tab spacing
You can remove the default tab spacing and delete the tab stop characters in your document by manually selecting and deleting them. Or you can use Find and Replace to remove several tab stops or all tab stops.
- On the Home tab, click Replace.
- Type ^t in the Find what box and leave the Replace with box empty.
- Do one of the following:
- To delete one tab at a time, click Find Next and then Replace to move through the document.
- To delete all tabs at once, click Replace All.
To remove a tab stop that you’ve added to your document, drag the tab stop symbol off the ruler.
When you release the mouse button, the tab stop disappears and your text moves to the next tab location or to the default tab spacing, set at every half inch.
For example, the picture below shows text aligned to tab stops that have been added to the document: a right-aligned tab stop at .75 inches and a left-aligned tab stop at 1.25 inches.
After the tab stops are removed, the text moves to default tab locations – set at every half inch.
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Note: If you don’t see the ruler at the top of your document, click View > Ruler. If you don’t see the tab stop character in your document, click Home and then click Show/Hide .
Remove the default tab spacing
To remove the default tab spacing, delete the tab stop characters in your document by either manually selecting and deleting them, or, if you want to remove several or all of them, by finding and replacing them.
- In the upper right corner of the document, in the search box , type ^t.
- Click the magnifying glass, and then click Replace.
- Leave the Replace With box empty.
- Click Find and then Replace to move through the document and delete one tab at a time.
- Click Replace All to delete all of the tabs at once.
Clear all or multiple tab positions
A quick way to clear multiple tab stops is to use the Tabs dialog box.
- Click the text that has tab stops you want to remove.
- On the Format menu, click Tabs.
- In the list under Tab stops, for each tab stop position you want to clear, click the position and then the minus (-) sign. To clear all tab positions, click Clear All.
- Click OK when finished.
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