(Front Wheel disassembly and rebuild of Torsilastic Tubes). I am enclosing photos of what I found. I show how I fixed the problems I did find. I cleaned up my filthy front wheel assemblies to see if there was any problems there and then I removed my two grease inspection plates over the ends of my horizontal kingpins, (Eagle King Pins are horizontal). After this inspection I found that the King Pin bushings were worn out completely and needed replacing. I had to come up with a plan to remove the bad kingpins and removing these kingpins was a real, real challenge all alone. While doing this task, on my time off I ordered parts I needed for the “A” arm reassembly. After receiving New King Pins from then (Jefferson Bus Co.), I was able to use my friend’s Machine Shop and I bored out both of the “A” arms and fitted the new king pins to the bushings. Thank God I was a machinist when working at GE and I had a friend with the machines I needed to do the machine work needed for the new kingpin bushings. Now I realize I have another problem after removing the entire wheel assemblies. The side support wings of the front torsilastic arm are causing a problem to my torsilastic tubes. (Rusting the hell out of them as dirt and debris get inside of the arms because of design not having these arms seal welded to the tubes!! Anyhow before fabricating new tube arm supports, I cleaned the tubes all up and then I had ⅛” plate metal rolled to the outside diameter of the tubes, I then cut these rolled tubes down the middle making two half clam shells I will call them. I took these clam shells, fitted them to the tubes and seal welded them to the outside of the tubes. Now I feel I have reinstalled the integrity of the Torsilastic tubes as in areas inside of the wings the tubes were rusted out showing a little rubber of the actual torsilastic shock of the tubes. Oh Yea, I was fully disgusted, what the hell kind of mess do I have on my hands and how much worse can it get? “Little Did I Know”! Well I mfg. New wings for the tubes to support the wheel assembly arm. I made this out of ⅛” diamond plate steel and now they are seal welded on all surfaces so no more debris can get inside of these arms. What a design! Finally in these photos you will see the finished product of my labor with rustbullet paint on the arms and then sprayed with rustoleum dark gray paint. All the rework you see in these post that are on one side of the bus is duplicated on the opposite side, ALWAYS. A sign that your kingpins are bad is having to over correct your steering going down the road, there will be no vibration because of the heavy weight though. But you will feel a thud like when you hit a hole or something like that, remember i only drove this beast 100 miles total when I purchased it to today. This bus has cost me almost $7,500 per mile now!! Think about it before purchase and “HAVE IT INSPECTED” by a professional even if you have to pay a couple hundred dollars. I know, I know, but that is why I am telling you of MY mistakes, and hope you will not repeat them yourself. Now onto the photos. I know, another long, boring post.