On 08-27-97 Jeff Edmonson wrote to Pete Snidal... 
 JE> I've got an old '66 Ford Pickup.  Seems that OLD_TRUCK  
 JE> isn't in the backbone, anymore :-( 
 JE>  
 JE> Anyone ever have any luck replacing the King-pin suspension  
 JE> in those old battle wagons? 
 JE>  
 JE> It's an F-100, Twin I-beam. 
I did one while living in upstate NY once.  But, I thought I could 
go to the junkyard and salvage one from a wreck.  Every twin-I in 
the joint was already taken.  Counter guy said that when they hang 
a snowplow on the front, the front end can't take it. 
 
Since I had access to a machine shop floor at the time, I pushed 
the pins and counter bored for industrial lubrilte bearings.   
Since I was doing it for a friend's truck I don't know how long it 
worked- he had a plow on it ;-) 
 
Done pins a couple GM; One I did as per specs and it had a leeeetle 
play on the spindle which did not bode well; but every old truck I 
ever saw always had a little, and they all wander a little, and I 
dont think the *original* owners ever noticed; we all expected the 
trucks to do that.  Did one old GMC stifferan hell, and six months 
later running on potholes and cobblestones it was still tight, and 
still hard to turn the wheel. 
 
Done pins on my 48 dodge, which has upper and lower 'A' arms like 
you'd expect with ball joints.  they loosened up in a couple years, 
although it mighta been due to the extra weight of the 390 ford I 
had in it at the time.  I had just stuck a 323 straight 8 in it when 
my house burned down, and so i aint got around to getting the pins 
and front end fixed again just yet. 
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