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I live in Grand Junction Co about 250 miles from Denver. I have been unable to find a machine shop that can hone king pins.  Does anyone in Denver know if there is a place that installs and hones king pins? Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks Larr

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I always thought reaming was a little sloppy.  Were you happy with the fit?  What is the name of your local machine shop?  Thanks Larry

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I have always had them done accurately on a sunnen hone type machine.

Better .001 to .002" fit.

 

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Way back in the 60s/70s I had access to  a 50 ton press, Sunnen pin hone, valve seat machine and valve refacer in the back of a parts store that had stopped doing such work.  I bought all my parts there and they let me use the machines whenever I needed them.  Boy, I miss having that quality of stuff at my disposal. 

 

I have a press and valve stuff, but nothing like the quality they had.

 

The hone made king pins a quick and easy job.  Not necessarily better than a reamer, but certainly faster.

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Not many quality automotive machine shop guys left anymore who can do excellent machine work.

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DA working mistake.
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I haven's tried a diesel shop but will check.  I stopped at the only hot rod shop in town.  They didn't know of anyone in town that hones king pins.  Any know of a hot rod shop in Denver that can hone the pins?  Thanks Larry

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Good evening:

Many years ago, J.C.Whitney sold kits of king pins with bushings and misc parts.  They also sold a manual reamer that was the size for your kit.  Reamer could be turned with a wrench.  (The bushings are what gets reamed, of course, not the pins, as several post seem to imply.). Possibly hand reamers are still available??

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They are. But finding the long one may be a challenge. Most machine shop supply houses will have them. King pin reamer. Need diameter of the king pin. I have a 47 coming for king pins, guess i will be making a video. 

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