Remove Bush from gear

I found this chewed bush in the 1st layshaft gear. It will not budge. Again something stuck. What is the proper procedure for removing it? Heat? Drift? Is there a proper direction in which to remove it?

take a hacksaw blade or a file and cut a grove almost all the way thru the long way. This will relieve pressure on the bore and then you can pound or break it out.

drones76 said:

I found this chewed bush in the 1st layshaft gear.

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Yes, that sort of damage is fairly common.

drones76 said:

It will not budge. Again something stuck. What is the proper procedure for removing it? Heat? Drift? Is there a proper direction in which to remove it?

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If I remember correctly, I think I just pressed the old bush out by pressing the new bush in.

No, it doesn't matter which way it is removed.

hacksaw worked. thanks again.

Yes that 1 st gear fracturing is common. Try freezing the new one before carefully tapping it home.

Dredging up an old post. My tranny chewed up another one. Same bush. I have one on order. As I see, it is fairly common. This one probably had about 15k miles on it.

The reason I went back into the gearbox is that I was hearing a very odd sound that was very random but always while under way. I suspected something in the gearbox. I cleaned it out and found a lot of gold dust but no large pieces. My assumption is that the gears will just grind those pieces up into flakes. Is that correct?

Yes the gears should be unaffected, not that they don't wear quickly on the gear face anyway but it won't make it worse.