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Took my ride to a front end clinic for a steering check because it would wander around in road ruts and he said the king pins are a little worn. Having a bench style drillpress and a 20# sledge, can I do it by myself? Whats the procedure? Thanks for your response

Not a real difficult job, but it'd be best to buy a shop manual that shows and tells you how.

I just finished replacing the kingpins on my newly acquired 38 Master and I was glad that I had a 30 Ton press to do the job. A sledge hammer will usually move them. I did this with my 1 Ton and I drove them down and out the bottom. It ended up damaging the bores because the top of the kingpin must have swelled a little. If I were to use that method again, once they started to move I would take them out the opposite way, that is out the top.

Mine was not hard to do, but I also have knee action shocks.

Like everyone said, follow the shop manual's instructions.

The grease caps are thick steel, and all grease must be removed if you want to drill a hole in order to remove it. The retaining rings are strong, use good quality ring pliers, as the cheap ones will bend.

On one side I used a chisel/hammer to drive the pin down, and went up on the other side.

The bushings are full floating and no reaming is necessary. If the pins can be driven out there is no other difficult work required.

I should have mentioned that my kingpins were not too bad but had some wear. However when I removed the axle I discovered that I could move each spring from side to side, several inches. All the shackle bushings were shot. I think this is the reason that it liked to wander.