[Healeys] Swivel Pin Reamers

[Michael Salter]

Hi Gale,
One thing that I would caution you against in the sizing of king pin bushes
is trying to use a brake cylinder hone to bore them to size. 
I tried that before I got the correct reamers and found that the hone
produced a bore which was invariably misaligned with the one for the other
end of the king pin.
This resulted in the king pin bearing on only a very small area of the bush
and wearing prematurely.
I played around for ages with adjustable reamers with guide bushes on them
etc until I finally found a set of the correct ones at an auction sale.

Michael Salter
100 (1953)
AHX12 (1953)
Bugeye (1961)
http://www.netbug.net/blogmichael/

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From: healeys-bounces+msalter=precisionsportscar.com at autox.team.net
[mailto:healeys-bounces+msalter=precisionsportscar.com at autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Ghess4
Sent: April 16, 2008 1:27 PM
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: [Healeys] Swivel Pin Reamers

Thanks very much to all of you who took time out of your day to respond to
my
question on availability of the reamers.  You may have wondered why I would
do
this myself.  It's not an effort to avoid paying someone else.  Its more of
when you approach 80 years of age and having done almost everything in life
this would be just another bit of therapy among the shop stuff I do every
day.
What would life be like if Healeys didn't require a little work and
ingenuity
now and then?
Best Regards
Gale Hess
BJ8-35887
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