DIY: Spherical Shift Linkage Bearing

[slowSfaux]

They're called misalignment spacers. You can probably get to work on a belt sander and grind a taper in the ones you have.

Edit:looking at where the spacers would contact the cage, a traditional misalignment spacer wouldn't fit the bill, but I don't see any reason you couldn't dremel out a channel at the height the contact would occur. Or just use a thinner walled spacer.

[rguil]

They're called misalignment spacers. You can probably get to work on a belt sander and grind a taper in the ones you have.

Edit:looking at where the spacers would contact the cage, a traditional misalignment spacer wouldn't fit the bill, but I don't see any reason you couldn't dremel out a channel at the height the contact would occur. Or just use a thinner walled spacer.

It is the washers that OP recomends that contact the cage, even shaving them down signifigantly dosent work. without the washers, the spacers would fall off the bolt. I will get a pic tomm to explain. To make this work properly, one would need a larger set of misalignment spacers that you recomend to act as sort of a wedge in the bearing with no washers