13-01-2021, 03:59 PM
Hi,
When you shrink the eyes how do you ensure they are uniformly shrunk throughout the full length of where the kingpin passes through the axle and not just at limited points especially top and bottom? Do you build them up with material beforehand to ensure that after reaming there is the same amount of axle eye as original? I got my first sports axle done by Vintage Austin services many years ago like this but was thinking that depending on how the sleeving is done, i.e. the axle eye becomes stretched too far, then you won't end up with a substantially different amount of material in the eye part of the axle.
Cheers
David
When you shrink the eyes how do you ensure they are uniformly shrunk throughout the full length of where the kingpin passes through the axle and not just at limited points especially top and bottom? Do you build them up with material beforehand to ensure that after reaming there is the same amount of axle eye as original? I got my first sports axle done by Vintage Austin services many years ago like this but was thinking that depending on how the sleeving is done, i.e. the axle eye becomes stretched too far, then you won't end up with a substantially different amount of material in the eye part of the axle.
Cheers
David