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[Shealey]

I'm starting the disc brake conversion on the Shealey. I need to separate the wishbone from the swivel pin. I need to use the swivel pin with the disk brake caliper mount.

Q.) If I remove the 5/16 nut on the locking that goes through the middle of the swivel pin, will the fulcrum slide out?

Here's a photo of the wishbone and nut on the swivel pin.

Q.) Is there anything else I need to do to get the fulcrum out?

 

[Trevor Jessie]

Take the little nut off and carefully drift out the dowel. Then use a large screw driver to unscrew the fulcrum pin if it has not seized to the kingpin. Yes the fulcrum pin is threaded. It was new to me when I first started messing with spridgets.

 

[Shealey]

I though that I needed to tap the pin out. I tapped it a couple times but quit for fear of messing up the threaded section of the pin. I'll add some heat and PB and try it again.

It looked like the fulcrum was threaded in the diagram in the moss catalog but it was hard to tell.

Q.)Can you use the grease fitting to unscrew it if it's not seized, or is there a cap over the opposite end of the fulcrum that needs to be removed?

 

[Trevor Jessie]

Correct, remove the grease cap to unscrew (I left that detail out). I've never been able to salvage those dowel pins (and some of the replacement ones are soft and ill fitting).

 

[Shealey]

Thank you sir.