[Spridgets] Spridget King Pins

[Mark]

A week or two ago someone was talking about the nut on the top of the 
kingpin causing the upper trunion to lock the swivel.  I took my front end 
apart today to replace the lower A arm rubber bushings and have the A arm on 
my bench.  I am sure I have replacement kingpins and have run into the same 
issue.  They way they are made there is no way to shim up the upper trunion 
so that it won't lock down the upper trunion swivel.  It looks like the 
threaded part of the king pin is threaded down too far so that no amount of 
shims could possibly fix it.  It was supplied with a nyloc so I am assuming 
that the procedure would be to just crank it down snug.  I think I will 
drill the top of the kingpin and use a castle nut set just so there is not 
up/down play and put a cotter pin in it or maybe use a nut and a lock nut. 
The latter may be a better idea as it could be adjusted as the thrust washer 
wears.  Am I missing something?

The PO of my car had put the lower fulcrum pins in backwards which allowed 
them to move around.  I drove the car 400 miles last weekend with them that 
way and didn't notice until I got home.  Lucky I didn't have a bigger 
problem but the car ran great at 70!  Also glad I had a spare set of fulcrum 
pins as the old metal sleeve had seized solid to the pins.  I am about to 
put it back together and will put some anti seize on the pins.

Mark
Nashville
http://www.arrestmered.com
58 "Bugeye"