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Today I purchased a front axle from a friend because the one that came on the car I am restoring had stripped threads on the passenger side lower fork hole. I sand blasted the area to clean up the kingpin holes and surfaces where are the spindle bushing flanges ride and discovered an interesting fix to an old problem. Namely stripped threads in the lower fork. It appears whoever did the work used a sindle bushing. He did a decent job of it. The threaded hole lines up with the upper hole so the kingpin fits as it should. I wonder if the repair was made before Helicoils were available.

Always interesting to see what people did to keep thier cars going.
I would not use that axle. Lots of good axles out there cheap. A good repair now and in the day is the stevens axle bushing. Lots of the stevens tools out there to borrow and someone on this site was making new ones. Special jig aligns the upper and lower to center the reamer that cuts a small cone shape. Special cone shape steel bushings provide a permanent fix with minimum metal removed from the axle. Smooth hole bushing for top, threaded hole bushing for bottom.