Waking up a Sleeping Beauty, 1934 5 window

[The Art Doctor]

Originally Posted by alchemy

Those kingpins sound like poorly manufactured parts to me. I wouldn’t trust them. Can you find another pair?

Also, you will need a large tanged socket to work on the tie rod ends. Might as well start looking for one now. Then it will make it much easier to take them apart, as well as adjust them.

I "won" a shelf worn old stock replacement set on eBay this morning, I will report if they are better.


Do you have an image of this socket? I could get the nut off but I had no way of introducing a puller. The gap between the steering arm and the rod end was filled with a hard plastic seal and there was no gap what soever to grab on with a two jaw puller or any modern style ball joint puller. I tried to rap two hammers simultaneously on the steering arm's socket to no avail and a pickle fork didn't fit in the non-existent gap to even try (was last refuge), so I gave up and unwound it.