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| Your spindle will probably not look like the spindles on our rebuild page. |
More like this. This one is off one of our test cars and has about 5 years use. |
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| We used a wire wheel on a die grinder to remove the surface rust and old grease. |
Since this was an older model, the link-pin bushing protruded out beyond the king-pin surface as seen in fig. 3. You can grind it off or remove the bushing. Here we are pushing out the bushing with a punch. |
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| There will usually be a small lip on the top C- clip grove and maybe some nicks around the bushing hole. |
Use a file to remove the lip and any other imperfections so the king- pin will slide out of of the spindle housing. |
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| Here the king-pin slides out smoothly, Ready for new bushings. |
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