[Healeys] King pins

[WILLIAM B LAWRENCE]

I may be corrected on this, but in my opinion the threaded fulcrum pin should
be a tight sliding fit in the lower trunnion. When installed it should not
have any play and it should not rotate in use. If it is tight going together
that is probably good.
Bill Lawrence

> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:27:28 -0500
> To: healeys at autox.team.net
> From: s.hutchings at rogers.com
> Subject: [Healeys] King pins
>
> I posted a question about this a while back and didn't get any
> responses, so I thought I'd have another go.
> There was some excess metal left on the bottom of my new kingpins
> where they had been machined...specifically where the hole for the
> cotter pin meets the opening for the threaded fulcrum. I carefully
> cleaned this out, but I'd like to know how tight the fit of the
> threaded fulcrum should be. Is this an intereference fit like a
> bearing? Or is a bit of burr in there making it tighter than it
> should be. To put it more simply, what's the procedure of fitting the
> fulcrums usually like? The cotter pin seems tight too, before I get
> any thread coming out of the other end to get ahold of.
> Hope this is clear,
> Thanks,
> Stephen, BJ8
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