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9146 rick dentel yardley, pa, USA 1970 Porsche 914 1978 MG MGB 2002 Mini Cooper	Posted: August 03, 2012 08:18PM Registered: 1 year ago Posts: 1,365

My son is in Northern Maine canoeing the Allagash River and has been away for the past few weeks so I can't do any work on his B. Well I was bored and decided to clean up his rear cross member install new poly pin bushings,steady rod pads and rear mounts. The poly pin bushings differ from the factory rubber one so I used the search function for a quick check. Oh my god. "It is near impossible", "you can only install it if you modify..." There are 16 different combinations you will never get it right.
When I dissemble something I pay attention to how it came apart (it appeared it was never touched by the PO). However after reading post number 99, I decided to check the John Twist video (very clear) and it showed it was correctly installed. If I have to modify some thing,how did it get put in originaly? Generally mods I feel are for flat raters at steelerships. I will be putting the powertrain in this coming week with my son and don't expect it to take several weekends,just several hours. We will see.

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Re: CAUTION:To much information 78B #2
John D. Weimer Cape Girardeau, MO, USA	Posted: August 03, 2012 08:56PM Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 21,577

You stated.......... "When I dissemble something I pay attention to how it came apart"

Just don't second guess yourself and you will do fine.............. Except for maybe the installation of the rear brake shoes. Check the book on that one every time.

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9146 rick dentel yardley, pa, USA 1970 Porsche 914 1978 MG MGB 2002 Mini Cooper	Posted: August 03, 2012 09:04PM Registered: 1 year ago Posts: 1,365

John, I always have a exploded part diagram handy. Any time I due drum brakes I only take apart one side at a time.

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aeropaul Paul Collado Wichita, USA 1978 MG MGB "Attention-whore" 2011 Suzuki Grand Vitara XV6 "Suzi"	Posted: August 03, 2012 10:05PM Registered: 1 year ago Posts: 72

You know, I get made fun of for this by some of my friends, but I have been doing this wrenching thing for far too long.

Whatever I work on, I take it apart slowly and deliberately paying careful attention to what is being removed and in what sequence. If I pulled it apart safely and sanely, reassembly requires orders of magnitude less time than disassembly.

The last big example, the water pump on my old jeep grand cherokee I6 (long gone). Took 3 to 4 hours to disassemble it without any manual or guidance, paid careful attention to what I removed, how I removed it, and the removal sequence. Reassembly time was 1 hour, drunk.

Tearing into something blindly without paying attention is how you end up with brackets and bolts laying on the ground after a job is finished asking yourself "what does that thing do"?

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