King pin puller
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texas webb
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Wow!
GB SISSON
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Looks like spindle pin PRESSI can't imagine pulling a pin.
You will find,if and when you would use this, just how wonderful a tool it is. I have the KRW version and when I have come upon a "stuck" pin... it works with ease.
Good score!
I was imagining that the piece on the right had a hole through it and the screw thread had steel dowels that pressed or 'pulled' the old kingpin out. I have never seen or used any similar tool so it's all new to me. However I did pull my latest set of kingpins and they were stuck 'real good'. Most of the searches I had done in the past focused on a BFH. I decided to try this instead. In the end I settled on a tall coupler nut as the regular nut's threads wouldn't hold up to the abuse. I tried a fine thread nut and bolt, but the hardness didn't weld as well for me, as I'm not a very experienced welder. Tapping the pin from below as another person took up the slack with a 1/2" drive ratchet produced the best results.
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Kube
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Once you use one of these, you'll wonder how you did this job in the past without it...Here are a couple of pictures that I had found googling for info. This will also push out radius rod pins if you have the correct " upper flange" with a large opening in it (which I don't have) to fit over the flange on the pin. Bill
Dare I say it!
funrunr
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Don't buy the hinge pin tool from MAC's, I bent the pins on the first set of hinges I tried it on. Returned it and still waiting for refund. Thanks outlaw on the Bob Drake part number, I will look into it. I sure do like the looks of the king pin tool, especially if it pulls perch bolts too.
skidmarks
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Here are a couple of pictures that I had found googling for info. This will also push out radius rod pins if you have the correct " upper flange" with a large opening in it (which I don't have) to fit over the flange on the pin. Bill
That is the one I have made by snapon. Will do model A on up to 48 perch pin bolts
GB SISSON
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Dare I say it!Bob Drake makes one. A very nice cast one. Part # TL100.
But I need mine for this afternoon as I will be heading out on a parts trip on the other side of the state and need to snag two jailbar panel front doors along with a huge load of other parts. Picture two 3/8" coupler nuts, the type made for ready-rod. Thread them both onto a scrap piece of rod leaving 2 1/2" or so between them. Enough so the hinge fits between them. Now weld 3 pieces of rod or strap onto the flats. Next bore out the top nut so it will clear the head of the pin. Take a grade 8 bolt and grind (don't have a lathe) the last inch or so as a pin to fit the pin diameter. What made the pins bend with the cast one? I'm hoping to whip this up during lunch today. Maybe 1/2" nuts would work better but more grinding. Might this work?
funrunr
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The pins bent under pressure, removed the first pin and tried again with more heat. The second pin bent and became lodged in the Bolt and that is when I decided to return it. I cut the top of the hinge pins off and drove them out through the bottom of hinges with nail set a BFH. It looks identical to the one offered by Drake and Eastwood, any recommendations for a better quality tool? I have 4 more doors to remove pins on.
waterboychuck
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I used an air hammer and it worked great
GB SISSON
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This is the fifth day we have been trapped on our hill with our 1/2 mile mountain road iced over. I have cabin fever and am bored with the TV so I am heading down to the shop to paw through all my junk nuts and bolts and the steel scrap to build a king pin 'pusher' based loosely on the snap on design. Wish me luck. When UPS can get up our road my new king pins should be here.
Steve in Denver
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The King Pin tool does look similar to the Model A Hinge Pin pusher. But as another Barner and I found, it does not have the correct clearance to fit around the rain gutter on the '39.
I have not had time to weld this up, but was looking at making a tool similar to this. The bottom hole would be threaded and use a bolt similar to the Mac hinge pin pusher.
I have not had time to weld this up, but was looking at making a tool similar to this. The bottom hole would be threaded and use a bolt similar to the Mac hinge pin pusher.
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V8COOPMAN
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These tools work great on king pins, but I can't begin to imagine any of these tools being able to push or pull any perch pin that is Frikken' STUCK to the axle, as MOST usually are. A 30-TON press many times won't do that job. DD
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Kube
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Coopman, You are once again correct. The taper of a perch pin and the subsequent "frozen in place" pin to axle can often require much more than a measly 30t press.
I have had to utilize a very large vertical drill press and drill the darn things out a time or three.