Early rear shock absorbers

[hennesse]

I'm trying to disassemble my 1952-1955 style rear shocks. I started by using the procedure listed in the 1969 Service Manual, but it really only applies to the 1956-1966 ones. I compress the spring, but no matter how many degrees I turn the lower stud eye, it doesn't come apart.

The 1953 and 1954 Spare Parts Catalogs show a roll pin (604 in the illustration, but not in the parts listing), and there is a roll pin in my 54529-5x "rotating cam". Do I push this into the shock with a drift? Do I drill the pin out? Do I cast a voodoo spell and try to levitate the pin out of the hole? Help!

1954 Spare Parts Catalog

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Dave

P.S. Back in the Miscellaneous section, 604 is listed as a 1/8" x 3/8" Roll pin

[55khkjoe]

Dave, drive the pin in, there is room in the shock cam for this. You can recover the pin when you slide shock cam off. Also I guess you are aware that the top eye on shock is threaded, you need to make a jig when you compress it in the press to turn this eye, there is also a flat spot on the shock rod right below the top eye of shock for a wrench to keep the shock rod from turning when you screw off top eye.