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#51 ford f1 replacing king pins install#

If it doesn't go in snug by tapping it into place, take it apart and install ONE shim on top, install the hald kingpin. The bearing should go in SNUG, you should have to tap it in, it should fit too tight to be able to push it into place by hand. Place the half kingpin into the upper part of the spindle and knuckle to hold it together. The thrust bearing goes on the bottom and shim(s) go on the top of the spindle support knuckle. This becomes a tool to keep the shim(s) aligned. Take an old kingpin and cut it in half (its hard, you will need to cut it with a die grinder and a cutoff wheel). This way, both the outside and inside of the bushing get greased. This causes the grease to go all the way around the bushing BEFORE it goes to the hole in the bushing and then into the inside of the bushing. This groove is aligned with the grease fitting hole in the spindle WITH THE HOLE IN THE BUSHING OPPOSITE THE GREASE HOLE IN THE SPINDLE. You will notice that each bushing has a hole in it with a groove around one end of each bushing. OK, so now the bushings are fitted to the spindles.

#51 ford f1 replacing king pins how to#

He taught me how to rebuild these old front ends. He more or less taught me everything I know about working on Chevys. NOT SO, READ THE SERVICE MANUAL!!!!!!!!!! My uncle (Mom's older brother) was a Chevy mechanic every since he quit flying B-17s after the end of WWII, literally until he died last year. There are some 'experts' out there (translate idiots), in fact, some even worked in Chevy Service Depts, who say the bushings are supposet to be tight in the spindle This is another one of those experienced 'feel' things.

If all is square with the world, then the bushing should just slop through the spindle hole with just a tiny push of the finger.

OK, so now the holes are clean and dry and you have wiped the bushing with an oily rag -just an oil film on the bushing. If the spindles have to be honed, be sure to THOROUGHLY clean out the holes before trying to push a bushing through (I like to clean the holes with brake cleaner, I go through a case of brake cleaner per month). NOT drop through, but also, no drag as you LIGHTLY push the bushing through. Now, by slip, that is exactly what I mean. Of course, this honing is ONLY if the bushings will not slip through the holes. This can be used to LIGHTLY, LIGHTLY, LIGHTLY hone the bushing holes in the spindles. If the bushings do not slip through the spindle holes, you can easily hone them yourself if you have a wheel cylinder hone (buy one if you don't have one), chuck it up in a drill. The bushings should just barely slip through their holes in the spindles and freely (NOT LOOSELY) from one end of the hole to the other end. Clean the bushing holes good and wipe the outside of the bushings with an oily rag (don't oil them, just wipe them with an oil rag). I have a small diameter, fine, rat tail file that I use for de-burring the edges of the hole openings.

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Besure both ends ofthe holes in the spindles are free of burrs. INSTALLATION OF 53-62 KINGPINS/BUSHINGS First of all, the bushings are floating bushings. Here is an email Tom DZAuto sent me about the King Pins