Dear Netters,
What with the reaming topic, how critical is the reaming of the lower pin
bush on the king pin? Since that bushing doesn't have to be colinear with
another bushing, as is the case with the two swivel pin bushings, it looks
to me that if one were to press out the old bushing and then take it to a
machine shop to be reamed out to .75 + or - .0005 inches as per the manual
specs., then that should work just fine for that lower pin
bushing. Presumably, a wide variety of machine shops could do that! Or am
I really off base here?
On Thu, 9 Nov 1995, U. Goettsch wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Nov 1995 john.bartholomew@amail.amdahl.com wrote:
> Think about it, say the lower bushing is rotated a litte off the
> centerline of the top one. then they had to ream it a littel too much to
> get the king pin through. Even though there is no play in the affair
> now, the king pin essentially has only point contact with the bushing,
> since the bush is really twisted a little bit. This situation won't last
> long and in a little while you will have major play in that bushing.
> I don't think I made this too clear, but draw a sketch with the bushings
> not aligned, and it should be obvious.
> I don't know how your shops practise stands up in terms of alignment, you
> might be allright, or you might be lucky, since your bushings might have
> been perfectly aligned by pressing them in.
>
> Hope this helped,
> Ulix
> P.S. did my windshield last night, your post on that was right in time! Thnx.
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