GatorMail-Q Re: Kingpin(rollpin) replac
Scott Fisher writes:
It's all arduous if not too complex do-it-yourself work except for
installing the new bushings into the stub axle and reaming those
bushings to the proper size. Pressing the new bushings in (and the
old bushings out, for that matter) requires a hydraulic press, and
reaming them to size requires Factory Special Tool So-and-So, which
is available from a couple of sources for only $200. Yeah, right,
I'm going to rebuild my front end every month just for the warm feeling
it gives me in the pit of my jeans. For that I found a local shop ..
**** Special tools? Shop? We don' need no steenkin....
Is this for an MGA/B? If so, you can do what I did: push the old bushings
out with the new bushings, plus suitable nuts, bolts, and sockets. Then take a
suitable
-size bolt and slather it with fine valve-grinding compound. Use it to "ream"
the
bushing out to size. No big deal. Or, if you want, you can buy an adjustable
reamer for about $100. I honed mine to size with the bolt and the grinding
compound. Of course,
I was careful to wash everything out when I was through.
- Jerry
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