[tcb] Re: King Pins Question
- From: Eric Woodall <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 09:55:46 -0500
I sent my last pair to Nate at Wagenswest (in Oregon or Washington can't
remember).
He'll do drop spindles raised spindles, or stock rebuild.
Wasn't too expensive if I remember correctly.
Biggestdaddyo 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.
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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?
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> James Oliver
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