As a follow up and with 1500 miles since fitting the new kingpins and bushes, they are loosening up nicely with the most supple ride I can recall now. The tight clearances were immediately apparent when first greasing requiring quite an effort with my MINI wanner grease gun.
With a birthday imminent a generous swmbo has provided me with an electric gun.

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A little OTT maybe but it takes grease cartridges allowing cleaner less frequent re-fills. A recent greasing session took barely a one second squirt on each nipple on minimum flow setting. Just added one of those clip on q/r heads as well.

I'm now concentrating on a small re-engineer of the SSL top shock mounts using slightly longer rubber bush metal spacers and rubber grease. Hopefully this will ease the strain on top mount plates which have broken in the past.

Richard

2018 Roadster 3.7
1966 Land Rover S2a 88
2024 Royal Enfield Guerrilla 450
1945 Guzzi Airone