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The kit was engineered with separate front suspension components,
but was not designed to be built with poseable front wheels. Since
all the necessary parts were there,I decided to rectify that. |
Step one was to use a small hand-held drill to carefully drill holes
in the ends of the tie rod. |
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I drilled holes in the kingpin brackets. |
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carefully and you'll see the holes in the ends of the brackets. |
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| I
had originally planned to attach the tie rod to the kingpins
using common household pins. However, the assembly was too
delicate and I wasn't able to bend the pins to secure them
in place without damaging the brackets. |
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Back to the drawing board! I ordered some tiny 00-90 nuts
and bolts from Micro-Mark. |
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they arrived, I found that the bolts were just slightly too
large for the width of the kingpin brackets. I had some strip
styrene on hand... |
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first I drilled holes in the end of a strip. |
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