[Spridgets] Front End Reassembly

Duncan Sinclair duncan at pondhop.com
Sun Mar 16 09:59:39 MST 2008


Yes you need to torque the kingpin nuts as specified. You adjust the free
play by adding or removing shims under the kingpin nut. I used neversieze on
absolutely everything during assembly.

Duncan

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Tannen, Skip
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:27 AM
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Subject: [Spridgets] Front End Reassembly

Hi folks,

I'm getting ready to put my front end back together after refreshing
everything (thanks Peter!) and I had a couple of quick questions.
First, should I put something on the inner wishbone bushings before
seating them?  I seem to remember reading something a long time ago that
said you would end up with squeaks if they get installed dry.  Can I
just use something like Vaseline or is there something better?  Also, do
you lube the inner fulcrums pins with something?  It seems to make sense
not to install them dry and run the risk of having them seize up in the
bushings.  I was thinking of using Neverseize unless there's something
that makes more sense.  Lastly, my books say to torque the shock bolts,
steering arm bolts, and the king pin nuts - is there anything else that
should be torqued?  And speaking of the king pin nuts, it doesn't seem
to make sense to me that you would just torque them to 40 and leave it
at that - don't you tighten until the play is gone and there is just a
slight amount of resistance when moving the stub axle side to side?

Okay, it was more than a couple of quick questions!  But thanks in
advance for any advice!


Skip Tannen
'65 Austin Healey Sprite
'71 Triumph Bonneville T120R
tannen at babson.edu
http://www.skiptannen.net
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