- 1. King Pins (score: 1)
- Author: chasdoug@gte.net
- Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 21:58:10 -0700
- I found a shop that could actually do the front end alignment on my bugeye (damn these cars are small, and thanks Ulix!). They warned me that my king pins are worn. He demonstrated perhaps 1/8 inch m
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00280.html (7,668 bytes)
- 2. Re: King Pins (score: 1)
- Author: "Patton Dickson" <kpatton@worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 00:26:33 -0500
- Unless Mini Mani is selling these for around $400's both sides, you don't have to buy the stub axel assemblies. Usually they can be rebuilt with no problem. You will also have to (well should) rebuil
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00281.html (9,532 bytes)
- 3. Re: King Pins (score: 1)
- Author: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 23:11:15 -0700 (PDT)
- Chas, Your car is extremely unsafe and needs to be gotton rid of immediately! I would volunteer to dispose of it safely :-) Seriously: I would recommend to indeed rebuild the front end, even if it ju
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00283.html (8,902 bytes)
- 4. Re: King Pins (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
- Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 18:47:29 +1000
- There is a simple front suspension diagnostics guide at http://www.cgl.rmit.edu.au/~mg/cars/goblins/tech/frontend.htm Mike
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00285.html (8,540 bytes)
- 5. Re: King Pins (score: 1)
- Author: "magyk" <magyk2@concentric.net>
- Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 08:26:02 -0400
- +AD4-after ignoring a worn ft end the a-arm broke on my 66 midget shooting me across 3 lanes of e-way traffic. i was lucky and didn't get run over. i immediately rebuilt everything. now i inspect tho
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00287.html (10,887 bytes)
- 6. Re: King Pins (score: 1)
- Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
- Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 18:38:26 -0400
- Chas before you jump into a king pin job, just chect the upper trunnion bushings. The vertical play you refered to is usually cause by worn trunnion bushings, the rubber ons that only cost about $2 e
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00305.html (9,260 bytes)
- 7. Re: King pins (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 14:55:01 -0800 reply-type=response
- Thanks Peter, Now thats good, hard data. I'll go home tonight and remeasure and retest to look for loosness in the bottom fit. We usually think that our car is mostly 'original' when we buy it, but w
- /html/spridgets/2004-12/msg00134.html (7,590 bytes)
- 8. King Pins (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 21:13:30 -0400
- So I'm taking apart the front end of the blue car ('79), trying to remove the kingpins from the wishbone pans to use them with the new wishbones I got from Peter C. Got the right one off, good! the l
- /html/spridgets/2002-05/msg00330.html (6,671 bytes)
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