Re: [ihc] Center pins

[mark stegmann <truckdriver_1977@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ryan, I got this message on the digest. So I guess you
can post okay. Or maybe my computer is just special.

--- Ryan Moore <baradium@domain.elided> wrote:
> First section is to Hoffs, since he's the only one
> who I know can actually 
> post right now...
> 
> As far as I know, I still can't post to the
> digest... and wouldn't you know 
> it, problems abound.  I don't know how everyone else
> is doing... to be 
> honest I stopped reading because it got so annoying
> to not be able to 
> respond to posts when someone asked a question which
> I knew the answer to (I 
> tried to say many times that my scout has a robert
> shaw 195 in it when that 
> issue came up too)...
> 
> Can you forward this message for me if you don't
> have an answer yourself?
> 
> 
> I mentioned a good while ago that my scouts triangle
> spring leafs were 
> spreading sometimes on my passenger side front
> spring. Someone else said 
> their's did too, so I didn't worry about it.  Today
> something drew my 
> attention, just felt like I needed to check out that
> spring.
> 
> I decided to assure myself that the spring was ok by
> feeling the bolt on the 
> bottom... so I reach under and I feel a nice smooth
> piece of metal... which 
> felt nothing like a bolt or a hole for it to go in. 
> Seems the axle had 
> already shifted and covered up the hole from a
> broken center pin.  I had to 
> have been driving it like this for a long time now,
> with multiple long trips 
> on the interstate in the meantime and just today
> finishing a 90 mile or so 
> each way drive.  Makes me really nervous thinking
> about how lucky I am that 
> the ubolts appear to have been tight enough to hold
> the axle in its 
> appropriate location... well, within a few iches, I
> think it is 2 inches off 
> of where it should be.  This is the reason I think
> it's been like this for a 
> long time, because it explains why I my steering
> wheel was off center 
> towards the left, when I was trying to figure out
> why when the lift would 
> pull it to the light due to the drag link.  Thought
> it was just play in the 
> steering box with a slight pull to the right, but
> this seems to pretty well 
> explain it.
> 
> My question is:  what size is the center pin, or
> bolt or whatever you want 
> to call it?
> 
> The local 4x4 place doesn't stock them because "the
> parts stores do" and the 
> NAPA only has 1/2" ones, and I thought they were
> 7/16ths.
> 
> Of course, I imagine almost everything will be
> closed tomorrow and there's 
> probobly no way I'll get an answer in time to get
> anything today.  I can 
> only hope that I can get the pin and u-bolts in time
> to get the scout on the 
> road again in time to head to TN.  I leave saturday
> with a friend for a 
> short trip to N.C. and then I have to head to TN on
> the 5th.  It's not 
> looking very hopeful to have the scout on the road
> in time, but I'm going to 
> do my best... I'm still a little in shock thinking
> about what could have 
> happened if that axle had started sliding around
> going down the interstate 
> or if I'd tried to make a panic stop.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ryan (not having the greatest day at the moment)
> 
>
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