Finally got the trunnion bolt replaced on my '78 Spitfire. Fortunately, that part of the project is portable right now so I could work on it on the living room floor while watching the Browns. Many thanks to everybody who posted suggestions, advice and photos. The information helped quite a bit. The biggest anomaly I found was in getting the distance tube in place. Haynes says to just "fit" it. It had slid inside the nylon bushings perfectly before. However, once they were pressed in the fit was too tight, even greased. I wound up also pressing the tube in. It shaved off nylon as it went thru. Getting the whole thing into the vertical link was also a challenge, as everyone said it would be. At first, it was too wide to fit where it needed to go. I rigged a C-clamp and and old bolt/nut, putting the bolt thru one arm of the link, then using the clamp to apply pressure to spread the arms of the link just enough to get the trunnion started. Wound up w/ me guiding the link while my wife rapped on it w/ a hammer to get it lined up, a family project. Just dawned on me...could have used a punch to line things up more easily. I'll have to remember that for the next one.
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