Kingpin Bushings

[rccollin]

I am in the process of rebuilding my front end, and found that the kingpin bushings are too small to fit over the kingpins. I double checked the part numbers, and everything is correct. Am I missing something???

 

[rustystud]

Post some pictures so we can see what your talking about. What your saying is you replaced the bushings and now they don't fit the king-pins right ?

 

[73m819]

Just a thought, the bushing may need to be reamed, years a go, many, many, I got kingpin/bushing kits from ford for my 59 pu, in the instructions it called for a "ream to fit" and gave the rotation needed pull using a string and spring scale.

 

[jasonjc]

Just a thought, the bushing may need to be reamed, years a go, many, many, I got kingpin/bushing kits from ford for my 59 pu, in the instructions it called for a "ream to fit" and gave the rotation needed pull using a string and spring scale.

I remember reading the same thing about the deuce bushing on here, that they need to be reamed.

 

[gringeltaube]

I remember reading the same thing about the deuce bushing on here, that they need to be reamed.

Here... for example.



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[The King Machine]

I didn't need to ream mine out, I gently tapped them into place. They installed with very little effort. Lucky one I guess

 

[Big Dumb Truck]

I replaced my bushings last summer. I had to ream them out also. I pressed them into the housing then I chucked them up in my lathe. Then I opened them up with adout .0003 clearance. The pins had some wear on them but overall they weren't too bad.

 

[rccollin]

Yeah, I ended up using a brake cylinder hone to make them fit. It worked really well.