urgent question : disc vs drum brake spindle sizes

Doug Sweetman Nil Bastardo Carborundum

2,128 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 17 Dec 2005, 10:12 am

#438977

People,

An urgent question (I need to know in the next hour or two).

I have a king pin front end on a chassis that I need to get rolling today, but has no brakes - only bare spindles. I'm struggling to find some front drums (5 stud of course) just to put on so we can push it around, so my question is this ;

Will 4 stud discs fit on the king pin spindles ?

I dont actually need the brakes to work, only for the car to be rolling, so it wont matter that there is no caliper mounts.

The only reason I think they might is that I have a pair of (slightly dodgy) disc conversion spindles that are obviously homemade - they appear to simply be a kingpin spindle with a caliper mount welded on, and I was told they took 4 stud discs.

Hope you guys can help me out.

Cheers,

Doug

Doug Sweetman Nil Bastardo Carborundum

2,128 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 17 Dec 2005, 10:57 am

#439004

bump and..... does no-one know ?

Desert Moose Cut Cut Cut

2,098 posts · joined Mar 2004 · 17 Dec 2005, 2:45 pm

#439032

sorry i'm late 🤪

can be modified to fit ever easy but wont straight up...
ya need to machine the back bearing out

let me no if ya need help with it

Cheer's
Chris

Doug Sweetman Nil Bastardo Carborundum

2,128 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 18 Dec 2005, 12:00 am

#439151

ta moose, we ended up finding the old drums off my old mans 62, so got it sorted 🙂

needed to get the baja rolling and out of dads shed in a hurry....