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idiotmobil wrote: Your right main reason king pins can be other things could just be a bad inner axle seal but these mainly go due to other reasons check for movment in the wheel hold 12 and 6 if wibble kingpins hold 9and 3 if wobble wheel bearing these are not exact as I had not wobble no leaking but changed my kingpins for peice of mind and found one fell in bits as I toke it out I think thrre a easy job some would not agree I think it depends on skill and if you get unlucky with stubborn bolt etc hope this helps
Ive just noticed you have said grease this could mean seal as tgats whats in the swivel but if its more runny like oil more likely as above
i'll have to defer to your better judgement here mate. no actual experience of either . just something i read. rob
kirkynut wrote: On the two post part of the subject, it can be tricky on older ones with shorter arms but can you not get the pads to sit on the chassis just inside the radius arm mounts.
I realise this makes them even closer together but at least they are on a flat surface.
I have not put mine on a two poster but I know it has been on one recently as last year I had the rear wheel bearings done at my step father in law's garage and it went on his then.
Kirkynut
Just taking advice from the Suzuki workshop manual that tells you to put the lift pads on the chassis brackets that hold the trailing arms to the chassis.
No problem length wise are the arms are around 1,200mm it has symmetrical arms and the longest length is at the front where they go out about 900mm. Some of the 2 post ramps with short front arms could not get into the lifting points.
one thing to know is check the top one and keep it as a spare as they seam to do the bottom one in long before the top ive just replaced a cv and done the king pins at same time and the bottom one had had it but top seems ok so ill be keeping that one, same happened when I done the other side months ago witch has to come apart now to do cv and ill check the king pins and have a ok spare to replace the bottom one if its crap
