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Kingpins
I thought that it was my balljoints that were bad but with closer inspection it looks like it's my kingpins. My balljoints don't move but my kingpins do. Anyone have any experience changing these?
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maybe their called something different on pickups than on semi's. I'll find out and post back.
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The older Ford 2wds used to have king pins but they all went to ball joints the F-450 uses king pins to 97-98.
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The 88-97 F-Superduty uses kingpins because its a non driving mono beam front axle looks like a scaled down medium duty front axle. I think the F-150 to 250 used ball joints on the twin I beam suspension somewhere around 87.
King pins are alot stronger but people neglect to grease them so they seize up and the bushing wear out. If people greased them regulary they will far outlast ball joints which I don't like too much
I grease my truck every month I have done that with all my trucks because grease is cheaper than replacing king pins.
King pins are alot stronger but people neglect to grease them so they seize up and the bushing wear out. If people greased them regulary they will far outlast ball joints which I don't like too much
I grease my truck every month I have done that with all my trucks because grease is cheaper than replacing king pins.
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O.K., I can't come up with a specific name I guess, but on the steering nuckle there are 2 I guess you could call them pins about 1 in. diameter. 1 on top and 1 on bottom. It looks like the bottom one is held in by a split ring and the other one looks like it is pressed in. When I jacked up the front of the truck to double check the ball joints before I dove into that project there turned out to be no play in the ball joints but there was some in the heavy pins of the steering nuckle. Sorry, it would probably be more helpful if I knew the technical names. It's a 99.5' F-350 PSD 4x4 just as listed in my signature.
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O.K., this is the dumbest that I felt yet! After referring to the above pictures I got ahold of a Chilton and yes I am referring to the ball joints. I was calling the tie rod ends and the drag link ends the ball joints.
Thanks for posting the pictures and clearing things up for me 82F100SWB. Sorry for the confusion guys.
Thanks for posting the pictures and clearing things up for me 82F100SWB. Sorry for the confusion guys.
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