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Old 11-11-15, 22:21
Alex van de Wetering Alex van de Wetering is offline
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Next up was fitting the front suspention with some new bushings, pins and bearings. I was lucky enough to find a new set here in Holland. Removing
the old bushings and fitting the new ones was an easy job with help of the vise and a 19mm socket.
Afterwards the bushings had to be reamed to the correct size to accept the kingpin. The blades on my reamer were too short to work on both bushings at the same time....in other words there was a risk the surfaces of both ends would not end up inline, but at a slight angle. To solve this I made some plastic bushings on a CNC mill that would fit just around the shaft of the reamer and would just fit inside the bushing. I was quite happy with the result as the kingpins fitted perfectly after the reaming was done.

Alex
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