Front Suspension
- Thread starter johnr9q@yahoo.com
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No bushing. There are two ways Ive found to get that stud in.
1. Loosen the spring perch and rotate it until you can get the bolt in. Return the perch to proper position.
2. Loosen the kingpin (remove the dowel), rotate it a bit, insert the bolt into the perch, and then rotate the kingpin with the brake actuator until everything lines up. You may need more than two hands to juggle all the moving parts.
FWIW, one of the best lessons my dad ever taught me was "don't tighten anything up until everything is in position and all the fasteners are started".
johnr9q@yahoo.com
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Thanks JayJay. Trust Me I am just loosely putting everything together until I figure it all out. I sure wish I had taken pictures cause I am having problems reassembling it.Is the hole in the spring perch so much larger to accommodate this difficult installation?
I can’t get inside the design engineer’s head to determine intent, but that’s as good an explanation as any.
Will N
Well-known member
The loose fitting hole is there to allow leeway in the assembly. The tolerances in the spacing between the hole in the axle where the spring perch sits and the hole where the king pin sits, the angle of these holes, the tolerance in where the hole in the perch is drilled to accept the bake actuator bolt, these all stack up and if that hole were made a tight fit those tolerances would have to be minuscule. Shove the end of the actuator into the kingpin cavity, insert the bolt in the actuator into the perch hole, hold the other end tight to the kingpin and crank down on the nut to hold it in place. The kingpin might need to be loose to allow it rotate to do this.