Spindle pins needed

[bkelly]

When I was taking out one of my spindle pins, the punch was a little too small and went in between the threads and the bushing. The threads got ruined. Does anybody have any pins on a parts car I could buy?

[hls30.com]

New ones were are around $17 each and interchangeable when I bought them last year. If there were any problems removing the originals, for $40 I'd buy new ones, and clean the bores with a couple of passes from a rotating scotch brite pad followed by several chases with a doubled 410 cleaning pad(shot gun cleaning kit) and a healthy dose of the silicone grease supplied with Urethane Bushing kits-applied to locking bolt, the actual spindle pin and corresponding bore.

Will

[MikeW]

I'd buy new locking pins as well. No point trying to reuse anything that could add to the difficultly the next time.

[kurtwwalters]

I will be buying spindle pins, bushings, etc. as well. Motorsports is the only vendor I have found that has them. Does anybody know who else sells them (cheaper)?

[hls30.com]

Did you check Courtesy Nissan, or your local Dealer, I bought mine local cheeper than MSA-before shipping!

Will

PS thanks Mike, my mind was floored and my fingers couldn't keep up!

[bkelly]

I just saw that also. Ebay has a spindle pin puller for $120, but when new ones are ~$50 less, what's the benefit of leaving them intact? Normally I would have left them in, but I have poly bushings and have spent so much so far that another $50 doesn't mean any thing any more.

[kurtwwalters]

After beating on them relentlessly and after much cursing, I took my control arms to a machine shop and had them press them out. Worth every penny. At Hybridz they have a loaner program for the tool to pull them, but on the forum it seems like every third entry is that the tool broke. I think I'll pay to let somebody else have that headache. Even the machinist said it was a bear getting them out.