Gosh I hope not. I got the directions out of a book(which I don't have
in front of me, maybe it was Porter's). If this is true, I'm in a bunch
or trouble.
Any verifications out there?
Patton
John Colosimo wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I believe the axle housing for the wire wheel cars is a bit narrower than
> that for the solid type, and the axle shafts are shorter to suit. I think
> the axle shafts from a solid wheel car are too long to fit in that housing.
> A freind of mine just went through this conversion and he had to change the
> whole rear axle to fit the solid wheels.
>
> John Colosimo
> 60 &64 sprites
> wires and solid resectively
>
> Hi Evangelos,
>
> I'm in the middle of doing the reverse conversion myself (to bad we are
> so far off, we could just trade parts).
>
> All you need from a steel wheel car is
>
> wheels
> hubs and lugs
> new front rotors (get new ones though)
> both rear half shafts
>
> I got the whole swivel arm assembly from the front on mine though,
> that way, all I had to do was take off the king pin nut (with spring
> compressed), remove the brake calipers, and slide everything I needed
> right off. The parts yard decided that they would rather save the time
> than go through he process of stripping the hub. Lucky me!!!
>
> Patton
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