Rear spindle removal

[gnosez]

I think your troll-dar needs calibration. I implied no such thing. I suggested a different, cheap and fast way to remove a pin that under normal circumstances won't come loose. What you replace it with is a whole different matter.

I have owned 240s since 1974 and more than 15 years ago I decided to replace the spindle pins with bolts on both my street and race Zs.

I have never had one loosen under very extreme usage but of course if one was concerned it would be easy to say double nut them, use a cotter pin arrangement or safety wire them. I use a capture nut and replace it every year on the race car and every 5 on the street car.

As to a spindle pin removal tool, none that I have used or made will remove one that refuses to come out. They break in the same place as the one shown above. I have even used a very large slide hammer without success (keeping the strut secured is a problem I solved by building a jig for my work bench which I use to remove the stub axle nuts). I even had to drill out one from both ends on a Bridgeport in a rush to replace a cracked tube before a race weekend.

I consider spindle pin removal a 'right of passage" in Z ownership and believe there are just two kinds of people - those that have and those that haven't.