I am in the process of a complete front end rebuild on my 1961 P210.

My latest issue is the upper inner control arm bushings and pins. First off, it was not very easy to remove the threaded bushes from the control arms. I ended up breaking the top off of one of the bushes and had to get my machinist to extract the rest. The parts were sandblasted, primed and painted. So I go to sit down with my shiny old parts and my shiny new parts and the damn things don't seem to go together.

The instruction manual says to place the arm and new pin into fixture SVO 2300. It looks like this thing holds the pins and arm in a certain relation to eachother. Well, I don't have that tool so I began playing with the parts anyway, and I find that the new threaded bushes refuse to screw into the control arms (they always begin crossthreading). The thread for is odd, the threads are very shallow and I assume they match the pitch of the pins. The threads on the new bushes look almost identical to the old ones, but they look like they have a slightly tighter pitch. The threads on my old bushes are rather distressed yet some of them are happy to go right back into thier holes. I am beginning to wonder if you are just supposed to stick the thing in the jig with grease and force, maybe the threads on the bushes will work themselves out, just digging into the metal as they please. When my machinist was looking at the piece he thought that the threads were just ridges and that it was supposed to press in, I showed him how they were actually threads. Any help would be appreciated, if this fixture is absolutely necessary any tips on access would be greatly appreciated. I am sure one of you has dealt with these before. Thanks,

Mario m.