sitting for a long time and needed to be freshened up. There were also quite a few chassis /body bolts broken off in the frame that had to be heated and extracted using easy outs.
Going on to the spindles we realized the king pins and bushings were badly worn
and needed to be replaced. So we extracted the kingpins by removing the grease zerks
at the bottom of the pin and pulled them out by using a 10M x 1 fine thread bolt, a pipe, washers and allot of heat! Once the pins were out and the spindles were off the frame we extracted the worn out king pin bushings.
I decided to sand down the frame and respray it
using Majic oil based enamel tractor implement paint.
Majic doesn't sell a low gloss black like I wanted so I decided to
mix 4 parts matte black with 2 parts gloss black, and extra hardener. I ended up with a nice low gloss chassis black I was looking for.
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