[tpiini]

Today I had a scary wake-up call. I went to take the Cobra out and immediately noticed that the steering had some play. I stopped in the garage to look things over. I found that the (approx) 5/16" roll pin that holds the steering shaft to the first part of the steering linkage, a hollow tube, had all-but fallen out! Thank God I noticed the play before I got out somewhere where someone would have been hurt, as it was just BARELY in there and definitely would have fallen out on the road, leaving me without any steering.

I tapped it the rest of the way out and replaced it with a 5/16" fine thread bolt, double-nutted & red loctite.

Now the question. Is that an okay fix? Is a roll pin the standard way to secure these shafts? If anyone has a better idea, I'm all over it. steering & brakes are the two things I don't ever want to have fail on me.

Thanks, Tom