How would Gilligan and the Skipper do king pins?

[GB SISSON]

Being on an island it's an all day trip to a machine shop so I have learned to do my own automotive machine work primarily with woodworking tools. Yesterday some of you saw my teflon button jigs and today while waiting for my teflon rod so I can reassemble my engine, I decided to tackle my first king pin job. In the past I have just suffered with poor steering in my old trucks because I didn't want to spend the money and it didn't seem like an easy DIY job. I did a search here , and came up with 8 lb hammers, heating axle to dull red and a lot of swearing to remove them. Most said to just avoid the aggravation and take them to a shop and have them pressed out and new bushings honed. The home version usually involved a 50 dollar reamer that still wasn't as good as a Sunnen hone to most people. I laid awake last night and came up with a few ideas that might help. This morning I put these to the test with very good results. Some might recognize my Sunnen Dowel Hone as yesterday's test dowel for my wrist pin eliminator. Just happened to be the right size. On the kingpin puller that's a 1/2" standard bolt with a long coupler nut to get a lot of threads engaged. They would not draw right out, but the nut would get real tight, I'd tap the bottom of the pin with a 3 lb hammer and get another 1/4 to 1/2 turn on the wrench. Over and over again, switching tools. Shortly after starting, my cabinet shop employee stopped by the shop and I had him tighten the wrench as I tapped away from underneath. With this method it went very quickly. Now I'm waiting for my neighbor to show up so we can do #2. Yes, some heat was involved, but not anything red.