spindle pins

Lawrie

Lawrie

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just a note to things to check on fitting new spindle pins.
The ones we are fitting are FPS brand, they came with made in USA on the packet.
they are really nice and right on the diameter,BUT , the little slot that allows the grease to feed up to the thrust washer is about 1/4 inch to long at the bottom of the top bush, and extends further on by about 3/16th past the bottom of the bush and therefor actually goes down far enough to go into the top of the axle, this allows grease to feed out into the space between the bottom of the stub axle and the top of the axle.
we fixed it by filling the last part of the slot with 5 min araldite,
so now the grease only come up to the thrust bearing and top bush.
Lawrie
 
Ford referred to this part as a Spindle Bolt, but they are commonly known as king pins. The Spindle Bolt nomenclature goes back to the Model T, where the corresponding part was literally a bolt.
 
We have several sets of nos king pins on the shelf. If any one needs them give us a call. Australia might be a little stiff on shipping. 740 658 3495
 
From Wikipedia:

"Zoologist Nicholas Humphrey introduced his 1976 paper "The Social Functions of Intellect" with the following anecdote:

Henry Ford, it is said, commissioned a survey of the car scrap-yards of America to find out if there were parts of the Model T Ford which never failed. His inspectors came back with reports of almost every kind of failure: axles, brakes, pistons – all were liable to go wrong. But they drew attention to one notable exception, the kingpins of the scrapped cars invariably had years of life left in them. With ruthless logic Ford concluded that the kingpins on the Model T were too good for their job and ordered that in future they should be made to an inferior specification.[3]

Humphrey used the metaphor to introduce the idea of the efficiency of resource allocation by natural selection ("Nature is surely at least as careful an economist as Henry Ford")."
 
You probably know the story of the "100 year carriage" that was built to last 100 years. On the anniversary of it's 100 year it completely fell apart with every part broken.

I can testify that my smart phone is a "5 year phone", built to last 5 years.
 
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