Post Photobucket reboot from January 2011 continued....Since we're at the intermission, here's a photo of the black paint. Nothing special, it's just satin black, sourced from Newark Autojumble. Six tins for a bargain price.
(Newark is an anagram of 'W*nker' by the way.....)
You'll feel obliged to check this out, and the A1 will never be the same again.
Here's the Ford bush extractor, which will form part of my bush installation tool.
Here's the top of the new kingpin, and you can see the groove, and the tiny hole, with some 3 in 1 running from it. This is no more than a couple of mm diameter.
I've looked again at the original kingpin, and the top hole appears to be blind, so the grease nipple was of no use. The point to take from this is that if you want to have a top nipple fitted, you should check with MMC that your pins have a drilling.
Later Mogs - '07? have an upper grease nipple, so the kingpins must be drilled. It seems that earlier cars with a single grease nipple depend on grease going in above the lower bush and working upwards into the upper bush. That being the case make sure you put plenty in, but watch the brake discs. In truth the upper bush is well protected and not subject to the level of force applied to the lower bush, so won't wear significantly if kept greased.
I'm hoping to crack on on Saturday, although MrsW has plans for the afternoon, and I might even get a few hours on Sunday when DocW has gone home. I may even be rash and take a day off work. Now I'm off the road, the weather has improved.
