Installing Rear Swingarm Bushings on a 1973 Honda CB500

Reader Contribution by Mc Staff
Published on August 14, 2012
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 Here is a simple “How-To” project: installing fancy new rear swingarm bushings on a 1973 Honda CB500.

While stock bushings are readily available from BikeBandit.com, we opted for these sweet aftermarket bushings from Charlie O’Hanlon at Charlie’s Place in San Francisco, Calif. Charlie had Kibblewhite Precision Machining Inc. make a batch of these a few years ago and still stocks them. Made of C630 nickel-aluminum bronze, they should be long wearing. And because they’re shouldered, they’re much easier to install than the stock bushings, which require careful installation. Cost is $60 a set, about the same as stock bushings.

Take the bushing and press it into the swingarm recess by hand to get started. Unlike the stock bushings, you don’t have to worry about setting these to a specific depth: Just press them in until the shoulder meets the outer edge of the swingarm.

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