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On the deuce, there is NO NEED for a bushing because of the TWO bushings in the spindle, ONLY the 5ts need a bushing because there is only ONE bushing in the spindle and it is at the rear of the spindle, the cap supports the front of the axle.

I believe the deuce hub has TWO bushing to support the outer axle, the 5ts have only ONE bushing, and that is on the knuckle end of the hub,, the 5t hub cap will need something there to support the outer end of the axle

just talk to a GOOD machine shop, tell them what you want to do, thay will know what steel to use. the idea behind a HARDENED bushing is that the axle is hardened, so using a hardened bushing, nether part will eat up the other, as a axle would do to a BRONZE bushing as it carries the weight of...

I found the write up back in 97/98 in a MVmag, thay talked about a mwo but for some reason it was a unit by unit implementation

I would because the 5t hub ONLY has ONE bushing and that is at the knuckle end of the hub, the outer shaft is heavy so that would be a lot of weight bouncing around. AS far as the bushing goes, I would have a hardened metal insert made instead of bronze, on the out side of the end, I would drill...

That is what the MWO calls for

The only this would work on a 54/809 5t is to install the MWO thats cuts the air to the trans shift valves and the sprag shift, there by putting the sprag in neutral

JWALLER, then the SECOND time almost ran over BFR when I realized what the PROBLEM was and turned the air on and suddenly had traction when throttle was applied as he was backing up :roll:

I feel your pain, someone I know stuck his 819 because he FORGOT that he had the AIR OFF to his sprag :roll:

The desplined hub caps idea has been around for a long time, It just seems NEW to the newer guys, I know someone who got stuck on a wet speed bump because the front and front rear had the desplined hub caps