Kingpins

[transit jono]

Have zero experience with them.
What do i look for and what are like to change?
I remeber seeing Mk1 Transit's when i was a kid with wheels off in the street,saw one lose a wheel outside school one day,the wheel went miles away.

[Luke]

have a read of this http://fordtransit.org/articles/suspens ... -king-pins

[transit jono]

That answers the question-thanks.Looks a pain to do.

[Ollie]

King pins aren't allways hard to do - so long as they come out ok you will often find bushes are ok and just the new steel pin will do, sometimes its just the thrust washers which have worn - its defnately worth finding out if its going to be any easy one by trying!! otherwise just grease it often!!

A local garage did an 5 year old LDV recently which had never been greased and it took them 2 days with heat, presses and extreme brutality to do, whereas my mates 33 year old kancker just slid apart and could have been done in 1/2 an hour!! there is never any logic to this sort of stuff

Ollie