I've given up for the night

Since your tight up for tools, garage and cash...
Roll pins can be removed with masonery nails having their tips ground flat
Paint stripper on "seals" normally disolve them,
I think the 3/4" socket can be used as a drift to push the new seal it.

Hmmm... don't remember the cash part


5mm drill bit did the job


Yeah started doing that but need to sand the bush down to fit so it's sand, try to fit, sand, try to fit, sand, try to fit etc. etc. etc... the rod gets in the way of the hammer too.

Marvin, you`re doin it the hard way man,,,without the right tools & know how, you are going to have more than a sore neck

it is a relatively easy job (if you`ve done em a million times before) but a first timer without the right tools you`re going to sear a lot

emery tape is probly best to "size" the bush

make sure you get all the old seals out (they may be more than one old seal in there)
rip them all out, fit the bush with a dab of "locktite" & tap in nice & deap making sure you have room left for the original genuine seal to go in ontop of the bush, re-fit the gearshift coupling & away you go

word of advice------>>> don`t use a drill bit as a punch. Not very nice having it break as you hit it & spear your eye ball man,,,don`t do it,,,buy a proper punch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

& allways use eye protection!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

words comming from a guy with the largest file of "Foreign object in eye" at both the PA hospital & the Mater hospital, Not kidding

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

drill bits are hardened tool steel, they don't bend they shatter. The cheaper ones may have non hardened shank in which case you were lucky.

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Over 1,000,000Km, but now my retirement restoration project