is there a certain sequence or better yet does anyone have any pictures on how to remove the kingpins,it appears my cross bolts are peened over on both ends
Those lockpins are tapered & they only come out one way, towards the firewall, if I'm not mistaken. If both ends are mushroomed you'll have to file or grind the peen off & use a br*** drift to drive the lockpin out. the lock pins are usually the easiest part of the job. HAHA. The little welsh plugs at the top & bottom usually give me big balls. One time I couldn't get the lower plug out so I drilled the center & figured the threads of a long self tap screw would pull the plug out. NOT. It actually drove the kingpin itself halfway out the top. Good luck. Billy
SAFETY GL***ES SAFETY GL***ES SAFETY GL***ES. Knew a guy that lost an eye from a flying metal chip doing just this job.
And take a picture or make a sketch of how it all goes back together so you don't put the parts in upside down, like the bearing.Plus there should be some shims with the new king pins to take out any up and down play if needed. I have a 51 merc and I think the procedure is the same.And yes, wear safety gl***es.
My son and I just did a kingpin job on our 51 Merc and we knocked the pins out from the back to the front. They didn't appear to be tapered. I'd heard that some cars have a nut on one end of the pin that has to be taken off before pin removal. Our kingpins came out easily using a hardend bolt to knock them out. 19fordy is right on watching out when installing the new kingpin bearings and spacers. Make sure all fits well before installing the locking pin. We had a mechanic experienced in these old cars and he coached us on how to get the spacer washers in. Slowly rotate the spindle back and forth installing the washers without forcing them. To make sure they lined up so the kingpin would go through them we used a socket the same size as the kingpin to go up from the bottom to help guide the washers into line. The guy put a slight bevel on the socket to help. The kingpin just dropped right in. OH, make sure the notch for the locking pin is lined up too. We had problems in that the number of washers we put in raised up the spindle so much that the steering control arm would not line up with the holes in the spindle. We noticed this AFTER pounding in the locking pin!! It took some grinding on the bottom of the spindle support and some off of the steering arm to get it to line up. The other side had already been ground off at an earlier time. Good luck Ol Blue
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