King pin locking bolts

[baba]

They have grooves.Should they be aligned in a special way or just drive em in... from the front of course.

 

[Russell Reay]

Grant-
If you have a king pin in your hand, ie not installed in the spindle--you will see how they fit. They are matched to the king pin in a tongue and groove pattern. If I recall correctly the tongue configuration of the pin faces toward the backing plate, and the round half of the pin faces the center of the car.

 

[baba]

Many thanks Russell. Still having steering problems so going back to square one...

 

[Synchro909]

The last thing you should do is drive those cotter pins in. As I said in a similar thread recently, that can easily stretch the eye in the axle and ruin it. Pull it in with the nut and don't overtighten it even then. Henry wasn't very generous with the amount of metal around the eye.

 

[baba]

Thanks Son, but isn't that the opposite of what Wes Andrews says about installing those locking pins?
Any more comment about aligning the grooves on the locking pin?
I tried fitting kingpin and locking pin together outside of the axel and they sorta fit together so I guess I will try to align them that a way.

 

[Bruce of MN]

I had to do a lot of filing to get my pin to fit in there. A lathe would have made it easier. Try fitting the pin in the axle, no kingpin, first to make sure the diameter is good. If you had an expandable reamer, you could clean up the pin’s bore, in case there was some burrs, etc. The flutes may also need some filing or dremel grindstone work.

 

[Jim Mason]

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[Brentwood Bob]

That diagram is a beautiful thing.

 

[baba]

Beautiful, Jim, thanks all.