Front end kingpin replacement

when they wear out

 

And your wallet will be a thousand bucks lighter

 

Your front end jumps all over the place while you drive steering wheel vibration heavy vibration

 

Get a set of heavy jacks and raise up the front end.....
If you can move those wheels and hubs laterally you have a problem.....
If your Kingpins are gone...you might want to check your rears for tracking as well.

 

I put well over 900,000 miles on a 1973 International and the king pins were good when I sold it. Of course, I greased it every other weekend or whenever I had extra time at a motel. By the way, the IH 4070A still had the original brake shoes when I sold it in 1982. Anti-lock brakes were optional in those days, and this tractor came with the older, harder shoes and drums.

 

What'd the pads on the trailer look like?............(grin)

 

That is a good question. I leased to companies that had about seven trailers for every tractor. I also pulled piggy back trailers owned by the railroads in the days when the entire trailer rode the flatcar, before containers and chassis. So, I used the "broker stick" occasionally. Another factor is that I operated in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa most of the nine years. There was one year that I pulled refrigerated in 23 eastern states. There is no discounting mountains for brake wear. But, I drove conservatively. I did not tailgate, and I usually got out of the throttle long before an exit ramp. I would top a hill deliberately slow to avoid braking on the downhill side.