suspension
Kingpin & Bushing Replacement - Both Sides
for 1972 Ford F-100 302ci V8 · RWD
🔧Does this apply to your car? Trucks with ball-joint front ends (most 1980s-on) use the ball joint jobs instead — check which pivot your axle actually has before quoting.
🔓 Step-by-step procedure: not written yet
For $3, we'll write the full Kingpin & Bushing Replacement - Both Sides procedure for the 1972 Ford F-100 — steps, torque values, tips — and it becomes free for every owner on earth, forever, with your name on it. Usually live within the hour.
Original documentation, honestly labeled — and pages keep improving after you buy, as corrections and factory references land. How our data is made →
Labor Hours
4hr
Range: 3–6 hr
Data quality
Book-style estimate
Not yet expert-verified. Have the book time? Correct it below — takes 30 seconds.
At $110/hr (independent shop)
$440
Estimated labor cost. Parts not included.
Technician notes
- Two identical bushings per kingpin (upper + lower), pressed into the spindle. New bushings typically require reaming to final fit — commonly sublet to a machine shop.
- The lock pin is a special FLUTED bolt through the axle eye — its flutes engage the notch mid-shaft on the kingpin. Clock the notch to the bolt, then tighten by the NUT on the opposite side, not the bolt head.
- Threaded caps close the kingpin bores top and bottom, and the grease fittings mount in the caps — the pin greases through them. Caps come off first during teardown.
- At the I-beam connection: one lower bushing, then shim to bring vertical play into spec.
- The shims are sharp enough to cut you — wear gloves. Ask us how we know.
- High end of the range assumes in-house reaming; low end assumes spindles sent out.