Here's the top of the kingpin. As you would expect, it's as new, at 1" 'exactly'. smirk2



Here's the bottom. Admittedly not as bad as I expected:



But with a noticeable zig zag wear pattern with significant troughs:



There's also a witness mark where the bearing has been rubbing on the stub axle:



Now it gets interesting. Extracting the first bush is a test unless you use a press to push them both out the same way. This time I thought I'd try sawing down the length, so made up a special hacksaw from two strips of aluminium with a limited depth. This worked well enough, but that first bush still put up a fight.





For the second bush I used Mulfab's tool, and it came out easily........



And so to fitting the new bushes..................


DaveW
'05 Red Roadster S1
'16 Yellow (Not the only) Narrow AR GDI Plus 4