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RE: disk to wire

To: "'William Zehring'" <zehrinwa@UMDNJ.EDU>, morgans@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: RE: disk to wire
From: "Willburn, Gerry" <Gerry.Willburn@trw.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 11:40:09 -0700
Wil,

Not complicated, just expensive!  In addition to buying the wheels, all
four hubs are replaced with wire wheel hubs.

Gerry


> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Zehring [SMTP:zehrinwa@UMDNJ.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, August 06, 1998 9:12 AM
> To:   morgans@autox.team.net
> Subject:      disk to wire
> 
> Dear all;
> 
> A group of local car-guys, in which I am a sometimes reluctant member,
> were
> discussing the hassles of conversion of a disk wheel'd MGB to wires by
> swapping from a rusty parts car that's in the area.  It turned out to
> be
> more complicated than I had expected, with issues of the two
> alternative
> rear axles, overdrive or non-overdrive trannys, length of prop-shafts,
> coarse and fine threads, and other minutia.  This lead me to wonder
> what
> the story is with our beloved Morgan.  Can someone open up a
> discussion of
> this process?  Anyone made the switch?  Just how absurdly complicated
> would
> it be?
> 
> cheers,
> Will Zehring

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