Subject: urgent question : disc vs drum brake spindle sizes
Doug Sweetman
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posted on December 17th, 2005 at 10:12 AM
urgent question : disc vs drum brake spindle sizes
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
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posted on December 17th, 2005 at 10:57 AM
bump and..... does no-one know ?
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posted on December 17th, 2005 at 02:45 PM
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
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posted on December 18th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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....
