Try real hard to find a bolt that has the unthreaded
section sufficiently long to keep the threads from
bearing much of the load. Using a threaded bolt
as a hinge pin or clevis pin can be a bad idea,
because
the threads will cut into the other parts and/or get
chewed up themselves.
If you feel like being a purist and using the
original-style pin and sleeve: the sleeve is a bit of
corrugated thin springy sheet metal rolled into a
cylinder. Its role is to hold the pin in place.
If the old was was stil there, you could probably
push it (or its fragments) out with a long bolt.
But I really wonder why they went with a design where
the pin could just fall out...
Doug Braun
'72 Spit
--- Bob Berger <bberger720@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Jim,
>
> This is easy, get a bolt from your local hardware
> store that is long enough
> that it has +/- 2" of unthreaded shaft and is the
> correct size to fit in the
> hole. I think the shaft is 1/4" or 3/8". Drop this
> in from the top and
> then for additional safety thread a nyloc nut onto
> the end. The nut does
> not need to be completely tightened down. This will
> serve as a new pin and
> will not fall out in the future.
>
> Bob Berger
> 78 Spitfire
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