Re: Lower pivot bushing on FD 11

[shoestringmariner]

And good grief was that easy to take off now. I feel a little foolish. Chris P was kind enough to send me exploded diagram and we determined it was rubber bushing.

I’m pulling out what appears to be the original bushing that had somehow turned 90° In the tube, affectively turning it from a wrap to a strip of rubber stuffed vertically in the tube. It’s pretty tattered and covered with black-as-night sticky stuff. looks like grease dried out. Should these things be lubricated with something? Or could that have led to this bushings early demise? I thought it read somebody said they last forever normally