VCCA Home Forums TECHNICAL - GENERAL Mechanical - Engine, Trans, etc Dubbonet Suspenion. Needle bearings vs bushing

Hello, I'm looking at the housing of my dubonnet suspension and I noticed where the needle bearings sit there is a bunch of indentations where the needle bearings rotate. From what I have gathered this is not good and is worn. Are those brass bushings inside the housing where the needle bearings are?
Also I saw somewhere on the inter webs, cant I make custom brass bushings to the proper size of the housing, and the support arm shaft and eliminate the needle bearings?

Any advice is greatly appreciated. I pulled the front end off and I'm having some hiccups.

Back in th e day the rebuilders always replaced the needle bearings with bushings. A bushing will provide a much larger bearing area.
There are no bushings in the original set up that are replaceable.

Chev Nut, man your awesome. I'm scratching my head over here like there's gotta be a better way and ran across only ONE article about it.

thank you very much for all your info. That's all I needed to hear. You have helped me out quite a bit so far and I'd really like to thank you for your time and information. That's awesome.

There is literally hardly anyone out there you can ask about this stuff on your day to day interactions. No one has this stuff or even heard of it.

I ran into the same problem on my ”˜37. I had a local machine shop rebuild them with new bushings and seals. So far, after 10 years or so but not many miles they are performing satisfactorily.

Bob