The centre of the factory bush is brass from memory? and elongates exactly as the solid items do.

kameleon
The centre of the factory bush is brass from memory? and elongates exactly as the solid items do.

I did wonder,  I searched for the pictures of my old ones but couldnt find them and the ones I saw online looked like steel but may of well been brass then.

I can confirm that yes, the OEM have a brass inner tube. Well mine did on a Rev 2 3SGTE.

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I can confirm that yes, the OEM have a brass inner tube. Well mine did on a Rev 2 3SGTE.

Ditto - mine does too Rev 3 3SGTE.

So what does that mean? brass is good or bad? 
 
Either way it looks like I'll probably give the spherical bearings a go... and I need to find someone to fix the snapped bolt for the shift bearing bracket. Changing from 1st to 2nd is a bit of an effort and really slows down shifting time

I'm just trying to remember what it looks like but from memory when I was under the car (hoist) the mechanic showed me the bracket for the shift linkage bearing and it was sitting above the front engine mounts... I'm looking at pics on the net and it just looks different for some reason...
 
http://mr2wiki.com/uploads/AllModels/shift-bearing-ls.jpg
 

Here's a pic from the parts list of the sw20 NA cable ends setup.
Look at Image 2.
 
http://jp-carparts.com/toyota/partlist.php?maker=toyota&type=211120&cartype=3&fig=3312
 
 
 

Hi petmr2,
Your pic & Redtarga's diagrams are showing the same thing.
Pics are difficult to see things properly because there is other stuff in the way, plus the photo is taken from below.
Until you are able to secure the bellcrank support bracket, I don't reckon there is any point in doing anything with the bushes.

+1 
If we are talking about the bell crank support bracket (33608 on the diagram) and it is loose, fix that first otherwise you are wasting your time worrying about cable end bushes.
The support bracket is held on by 2 bolts (10mm X 1.25, 20mm long) screwed into the top of the transmission. 
On the NA model you will need to remove the intake stuff and loosen or maybe remove the starter motor to access them.
Not sure about turbos.
 

thanks guys... yeah that's on my priority list to fix... It's really annoying me so will get it addressed soon