Yes it happened today , Shock , Horror
Seems I have managed to finaly wear out my two old front tyres but the shock came when the guy told me that my nearside king pin was shot. I had a look and could hardly believe the play especialy as it was fine last year, don't do a huge mileage and grease the king pins regularly. No major problem for me as I have all the bits and have reconned a few stub axle assemblies recently. I was more interested in what had happened to the existing bits. Normal king pin wear is on the pin and bushes but it turned out that all of the play was between the pin and the stub axle housing which is a bit wierd as they are supposed to be a tight fit locked in with a self locking pin. My only theory is that because the roads are so bad around here in good old leafy Bucks and I have hit some "ball busting" pot holes that it has distorted the stub axle housing as ther is no play on the pin in the bushes
