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Should the upper dash panel have a brass bush to support the top of the throttle rod, as below:


The new dash panels I see advertised don't seem to have such a bush. Must one be manufactured or acquired from an old, 2nd-hand panel and then brazed onto the panel ?
TIA

hello
I have never seen a brass bush in there. Infact I have seen throttles rusted stuck to the hole so there is steel against steel

dexta roadless wrote:hello
I have never seen a brass bush in there. Infact I have seen throttles rusted stuck to the hole so there is steel against steel

If there is no bush there, only a hole in the upper instr panel, what supports the top of the throttle rod?

I believe a bush should be there, athough there's no specific mention of it in the parts list, and I also think there should be a rubber washer inside the bush, presumeably to stop water running down the rod.

Some info here inc a useful diag provided by Stefan.

http://www.fordsontractorpages.nl/phpbb ... tle#p12801

Dexta throttles are all a bit of a mystery and perhaps not the greatest feature of the dexta design.

There should be a metal bush rivetted/peened into the panel and a circlip on the throttle rod in contact with the bush to prevent the rod from lifting out of the socket in the steering column.

Gerald

Tubal Cain wrote:There should be a metal bush rivetted/peened into the panel and a circlip on the throttle rod in contact with the bush to prevent the rod from lifting out of the socket in the steering column.

Thanks Gerald, as I thought.

Hence my original Q that none of the new repro panels seem to have one.

I have checked my original instrument panel and this does indeed have a brass or bronze bush with a groove machined into it. In the groove is a rubber O-ring.