Picked up my repaired D60 today, and I'm happy with the results.
The repaired kingpin looks great, and if you can get a look up above the U-joint you can see where he welded the new bushing in place, then ground it somewhat flat to the "C". The bushing is about 3/16" thick wall welded top and bottom to the "C".
He said he spent about 3 hours on the repair, so for the price of a new "C" he repaired this one. He said he spent some time getting it squared up to bore the new hole.
Then while he had it I had him rebuild the rest of the kingpins too, put new U-joints in the axles, replace the inner axle seals, which required removing the diff., so while he had the diff out, I had him put the Lockright in it, put a master install kit in it, new inner spindle bearings, weld on lower king pin zerk protectors (see pic below), and put a 1410 Ubolt front pinion on. So pretty much everything but the ring/pinion, and the axle shafts have been replaced.
He charged me 5 more hours labor to do all that stuff. Very reasonable I thought.
The list of parts as follows:
Lockright locker from Summit, price matched to $340
1410 Ubolt yoke, master bearing install kit, king pin kits, 2 Spicer solid u joints, spindle seals, spindle bearing kits, inner axle seals (in tube), 2 king pin lower caps.....798.13
In addition I bought the SRW hubs a while back, which included the rotors and all 16 studs, those were about 340. And also a DIY4X flatback cover for say 100 w/ shipping?
So the lowdown for total cost into this front D60 is as follows:
original purchase....................
$500
labor for repairs to kingpin........$195
labor to rebuild axle, install locker kit, make zerk protectors,
and clean axle.......................$325
parts as listed above..............$800
Lockright locker.....................$340
SRW hubs, discs, studs...........$340
DIY4X flatback cover.............$100
Total D60 build cost.............$2600
The axle:
The ujoint/axles:
The lockright & diff:
New 1410 Ubolt yoke:
Lower grease zerk protectors:
