Sorry haven't replied sooner..... but everyone saying what we are using...... a nice grade8 bolt, threaded at end only...... Fact we just had it all apart to replace the clutch...... I told Henry to STOP litein them wheels up for the girls....
Don't know WHY he won't listen to father most of the time..... I know, I'm just a dummy and don't know nuthin..... When you guys recommend something he will listen.... yah, that pin being good is a KEY to good cluth operation! Donald Stike P.S. He also got the right needle for carb and now Christina is running very good.... --- Doug Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > it your replies! > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121 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!
