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Thank you all so much for your help. We got it going, just using the old bearings for now, will make sure he is interested enough to justify the search.

Thanks everybody, I am curious about the gristle too, like it would work great, am assuming like from steak. The truck is a 53 gmc that I am fixing up to sell. So for now, we are going to see if the old ones work. If not, then we will make some out of stock, but I am not looking forward to that. Billy bones, what were the tapered bushings called? There are other things called tapered bushings and when I search for them, that is all I get. Thank you

Thank you all for your help. I am in lincoln nebraska. I was afraid that you all would say that I have to make these bushings. It would be easy enough, but the shafts are tapered, so I assume that the bushing has to be as well, which will take lots of trial and error. We do have a local blacksmithing organization, and going to one of their meets is a good idea. Thank you for the advice on the blower motor, we might have to do that, but we are trying to keep it old school foe now. I appreciate all the help

Hello and thank you for your time. My boy wants to get into forging, so we hit an estate sale and picked up what I think is an old rivet forge. We are doing well at getting it all cleaned up, but I am having one problem. The blower fan seems to run on tapered bushings. These are worn to the point where the fan is quite sloppy and they need replaced. Has anybody done this? What did you use for new bushings? I have attached photos. Thank you.