King Pins

[AlleyCat]

Steve, you might want to do a little checking at NAPA.There are oversize king pins available for twin I beams.

[MustangSteve]

Already did that, and went through NAPA's book. Unfortunately, they have oversize kingpins for trucks up to 1972 model year only. I am using 78 model spindles and kingpins, so that won't work. (With DJM DreamBeams, the whole cause of the problem)

[AlleyCat]

.010 is a lot on a king pin bore.The only other solution I know of is to have the axle bored out and sleeved back to original size.

I'm not familiar with DreamBeams or how much they cost but for my I'd be very vocal with them on the subject of quality control. A poorly made glove box latch won't kill you but poorly made suspension parts can.

[fordman]

djm doesnt sell matching pins do they?

[MustangSteve]

No, I called their tech line and they said to just stick them in there and they would be fine. Yeah...SURE...Next I would have egged out tubes to match the oversize they started with. Anyone who has assembled them and not checked that dimension should do a good thorough inspection to see how things are holding up. I am considering having the ID of the tubes chromed (like industrial coating type chrome) to get the size where it needs to be.

[swissranger]

Last weekend I have started with the repairing of the I-beams. I thought that it would make sense to post some pictures to this thread.
I had to temporary “modifyâ€

[swissranger]

Here's the next picture

[MustangSteve]

Nice setup. Want to modify a couple more?

[MadMaxetc]

Nice work!

That is a lot to go through to fix some old parts, but I would have done that same thing if I had those tools!