[tcb] Re: King Pins Question
- From: Will Wood <evilscientistboo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 20:53:53 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
You contact Grainger Supply and get the reamer or an adjustable hand reamer.
Price is about $90.
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>From: Biggestdaddyo <biggestdaddyo@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: May 14, 2008 9:37 AM
>To: Texas Coalition Of Buses <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [tcb] King Pins Question
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>So the old westy bus was getting kinda sloppy in the front end. I've replaced
>center drag link pivot and tie rod ends. It felt better but still wandered a
>bit down the road. I took it to the alignment place and they set the toe-in
>but proclaimed that the king pins are too worn to really align it properly.
>They recommended replacement. I took the bus to John Pierce (now in Converse
>TX) and he informs me that he can't do bus kingpins because it requires a
>special "reamer" for the bushings thats larger than the ones for Type 1.
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>I'm surely not the first to face this dillema. My question is, what does
>everyone else do? Send the spindle assemblies off to someone in distant
>lands? or is there someone in Texas that can do this specialized machine work?
>
>James Oliver
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