Technical Spindles install

time in the build to take off the spindles. What is the procedure so I don't damage them thanks 1948 Mercury

 

Get your car up solidly on jackstands. Remove tires, brake drums and backing plates. Remove the tie rod-unbolt and whack the spindle by the tierod eye with a big hammer several time and the tie rod will pop loose. Remove the spindle bolt on the axle and use a punch to tap it out without hurting the threads. The tap the kingpin out from the bottom. Easy as pie!

 

Thanks will do

 

King pins tend to be rusted to the axle boss. Some times you can push them out with a blunt punch in an air chisel. An other option is to heat the axle boss

 

I have found that sometimes its a lot easier to drop out the entire axle/wishbone and turn it over and knock the king pins out that way it also is a lot easier to get the penetrating oil in if the pins that hold the king pins in are removed

 

I have noeperience w/ the older stuff but 50's-70's ford trucks ALWAYS req'd HEAT & BEAT >....
dave

 

I need to drop the axel to split the wish bone so sounds like a plan to flip it over and have at it.

 

I would get the loc bolt out first and get some penetrating stuff in..Then do as rustrodder outlined..As an added note, er question I thought that the 48's [at least Ford] mounted the tube shock to a hole in axle drop area and noticed the Merc shock mount is in the wishbone hanger or am I looking at the track bar mount and the Merc didn't use tube shocks and perch bolt has double holes ?.Ok more thinking maybe its not a 48'..I notice relief in the axle beam top just inside of bone boss, whats that for? Ok, Ok I'll get to work..My bad...

 

Well I heated it up with napa used penetrating oil and used my air chisel no luck I guess I will need more heat

 

Like others have said, make sure the lock bolt is out...

 

Yes came out easy

 

here is the shock set up mechanical sort of like on a old carriage LOL

 

Thanks, I see the track bar and the stabilizer bar and the lever shocks..You sure its 48 merc? Not that it matters, 41-48 king pins are the same..

 

at this point you probably have a better idea than me , It was mentioned a 48 you think Earlier ?

 

http://littlern.weebly.com/store/p3/Antique_auto_frame_(possibly_'39_Mercury).html good pictures of frame

 

Not all '48's had tube shocks. The '48 changes started filtering in duing 1947, but were not changed over totally at all ***embly plants until sometime in 1948. My '48 was built in November '47 and has a '48 serial, of course. It was built at Edgewater plant with lever shocks and steering lock.
All the numbers ***ociated with tube shocks are 1946 prefixes, but I think they only got as far as drilling the holes in rear crossmember until late 1947...
Everything in these years was dodgy due to shortages of materials in postwar conversion, both at Ford and at suppliers. And 1948 Models weren't even planned to exist...the '49 Ford and merc fell behind schedule so far they were released as '49's rather than as planned as '48 Models, so '48 production just carried on from '47 until actual 8BA and 8CM cars could be completed.

 

success I got one spindle off bowrrowed acetylene torch worked great