[tcb] Re: King Pins Question
- From: singlecabboy <sealingwaxred@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 08:10:26 -0700 (PDT)
--- Biggestdaddyo <biggestdaddyo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
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Paul Smith
www.23window.com/thezone
T.C.B.
H.B.B.
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