Talk Morgan Forums Morgan Sports Cars Maintenance & Servicing The dreaded King Pins ...again

I've been reading bits and pieces about the king wear and checking for it. I came across spanner jugglers interesting post on trying to detect wear and failure of the MOT tester to pick it up.
The pin and indeed the bush is a fairly hefty bit of kit and it would seem that a catastrophic failure need not be considered as being possible before an unbearable and identifiable amount of wear appeared at the steering wheel, at this point they'd need changing. It would therefore seem that the best course of action is to keep running the car and greasing the pins until you identify wear by a deterioration in tne steering functionality.
I would appreciate any input on this if i'm missing something important that may result in a catastrophic failure.

I think you are wright, the kingpin problem is a over rated wear problem that should become apparent before it becomes a safety issue.

A Noted Pacific West Race Driver and long time Morgan Owner told Me that I (and others) spend too much time worrying about King Pins and Bushes. Just keep grease in them and drive Your Morgan.

Probably less of an issue in the UK as the roads don’t tend to be so straight

See if the owner who was trying to get 100K miles out of his regularly maintained and scrupulously greased kingpins is willing to
Post his pictures of what was found when his pins were pulled and then see how you feel. Everyone will make their own minds up and I stopped doing them over a year ago but no one whose pins I changed ever said they regret having them done.

And you believed everything he said?

Come on Bill

Weren't they posted on here at the time Colin? Or was I just sent them in an email? I certainly remember seeing the ( ) photos

Can't remember Graham, maybe they were, spookiness of the story is they were not detected on MOT as the wear ridge was passed by the bushes on full droop so did not show the wear, never seen that and may be unique to the fact they were PB bushes and stainless pins (soft), I showed the pictures to Peter Mulberry and he had never seen anything like it either.

By the way Bill, my favourite 'story' from the gentleman concerned was when he claims to have been cut up by some boy racers on the road. He said he pulled alongside at the next stop sign and took his Magnum from the glovebox and with one shot blew away their entire corner suspension........ That and winning every single race he entered had me ignoring his posts

Colin, was he racing in Death Race 2000.