Originally Posted by
gastro
The newer versions (the ones that failed) were installed "properly." Based upon that information, one might logically hypothesize that the older King headsets were somehow tougher than their newer offerings, no?
Naw, it just proves that the older one was specifically engineered and machined to be installed via the Jeff Laramore Rule of Thumb (Jeff was the head mechanic at the Suzuki shop I raced for when I was a kid) - - that being: "If I don't hit my thumb with this bigger hammer, that sucker will go in this time."