you can buy a regular reamer ( right size ) and take it to a machine shop and have the first 5/8 spun down to fit the under size part it will help keep it staight
Drew----- Original Message ----- From: "Biggestdaddyo" <biggestdaddyo@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Texas Coalition Of Buses" <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:37 AM Subject: [tcb] King Pins Question
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.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
