Try real hard to find a bolt that has the unthreaded section sufficiently long to keep the threads from bearing much of the load. Using a threaded bolt as a hinge pin or clevis pin can be a bad idea, because the threads will cut into the other parts and/or get chewed up themselves.
If you feel like being a purist and using the original-style pin and sleeve: the sleeve is a bit of corrugated thin springy sheet metal rolled into a cylinder. Its role is to hold the pin in place. If the old was was stil there, you could probably push it (or its fragments) out with a long bolt. But I really wonder why they went with a design where the pin could just fall out... Doug Braun '72 Spit --- Bob Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim, > > This is easy, get a bolt from your local hardware > store that is long enough > that it has +/- 2" of unthreaded shaft and is the > correct size to fit in the > hole. I think the shaft is 1/4" or 3/8". Drop this > in from the top and > then for additional safety thread a nyloc nut onto > the end. The nut does > not need to be completely tightened down. This will > serve as a new pin and > will not fall out in the future. > > Bob Berger > 78 Spitfire Your messages not reaching the list? Check out http://www.team.net/posting.html === This list supported in part by The Vintage Triumph Register === http://www.vtr.org === Help keep Team.Net on the air === http://www.team.net/donate.html === unsubscribe/change address requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or try === http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool === Other lists available at === http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo === Archives at http://www.team.net/archive === http://www.team.net/the-local === Edit your replies!
