fixture for truing the bore of a hyd cylinder rod eye

[Frank S]

TO complete the repair I made the bushing and sleeve bearing out of some old stock I had left over from other projects. Like the top roller of my plate roller

I left the bushing about 0.010" oversized on the OD with a 1/2" wide flange 0.100" larger OD to give a positive locating stop.
Then after heating the rod eye hot enough to allow the bushing to slip in I welded it in place



Now I heated the sleeve bearing to red hot then water quenched it. I told the guy that the bearing will not last near as long as store bought one but this will get them by until the bearing I ordered come in

No picture but after quenching the file test was fair but nothing to write home about. I knew it wouldn't be because I figured the steel didn't have much carbon in it to harden anyway.
While the rod eye and bushing was still quite hot I installed the bearing still had to drive it in with a sledge hammer so everything is good