Thanks David! I’ve been referencing your photo album quite often and recognized the false brinelling from your pictures. I’ll be keep these old bearing tubes to use as spacers for when I do the outer fulcrum rebuild, as you mentioned in your album too. Very helpful stuff!
I searched a bit and found a 2016 post that had an email from 2009 that recommended a hardness of RC64 for the bearing tubes. Is this what you’re remembering? I’ll be calling vendors tomorrow to see if any of the current offerings are hardened. Here’s the 2016 post -
While I see some shortcomings with the needle bearings, I’m not really sold on the bronze bushings. The archives discuss the loose fit of the Classic Jaguar version. Coolcat/@Michael_Frank used to sell some that were press-in but I don’t think he does any longer. I have a call into CJ and they’re supposed to call me back.
Were the original fulcrum seals felt? The ones I removed were rubber and I’m wondering if they were replaced at some point along the way.