[tcb] Re: King Pins Question

  • From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 09:36:56 -0700 (PDT)

Yes!  Sometimes my brain works faster than my typing fingers.  Or vice versa.

theresabuckner@xxxxxxx wrote:  Sammy    I guess you mean Oak Hill Auto ??     
Terry


-----Original Message-----
From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wed, 14 May 2008 9:41 am
Subject: [tcb] Re: King Pins Question

  Give the guys at Oak Auto in Longview a call, 903-297-3496, or maybe someone 
else on the list has someone closer that can do it for you.  Or you can send 
them to Wolfgang for rebuilt exchange ones.  Any other ideas?

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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