Unless you are using your Spit as a taxi, I really doubt that
skipping a year or two of oiling would kill an otherwise good trunnion
or link!
BTW, using a threaded stud to carry a tension and shear load
(with a lot of shock) is an abomination, from an engineering
point of view. There is a good book by Carroll Smith that has
a lot of good info on how and how not to use bolts, screws,
and other fasteners, with an emphasis on suspensions.
Doug Braun
'72 Spit
At 09:21 AM 8/8/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>I always used to ensure my trunnions were oiled regularly - it was very easy
>since there was a trunnion-oiling stand at the Stafford show every year!
>Since the disappearance of the trunnion-oiling stand a couple of years ago,
>I haven't been quite as thorough as I should - and maybe I was paying the
>price for that, or maybe it was unrelated, but last year, as I was doing a
>U-turn, my vertical link snapped, leaving me stranded.
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