[TR] Steering Pin Conversion

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Yup.B  Randall, Joe and everyone, thank you all for your help.B  A combination
of light taps with a ball pean hammer to seat the pins in the taper, plus the
idea to use a regular nut to lock it down did the trick.



Terry




----- Original Message -----
From: "Randall" <tr3driver at ca.rr.com>
To: triumphs at autox.team.net
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 1:04:33 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [TR] Steering Pin Conversion

> Since the tops of the new nylon steering pins are flat
> circles and not hex, I take it the only way to hold them
> still while ratchetng the nut down is with vise-grips?B B Just
> checking before I bugger the tops up.

I haven't tried the Delrin ones yet, but what I did for the brass/SS ones
was to grind some flats on the pin head, so I could hold it with an open end
wrench. B Grabbing with vise grips is a bad idea, IMO, as you may create a
burr that would dig into the bushing and damage it or create friction.

Another route would be to start with an ordinary nut (rather than Nyloc).
Then friction should hold the pin enough to torque down the nut and lock the
taper. B Then you can remove the standard nut and replace it with the Nyloc.

Randall
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