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Re: Converting to Steel Wheels

To: Patton Dickson <kpatton@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: Converting to Steel Wheels
From: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 18:37:49 -0500
Cc: John Colosimo <jcolosim@exodus.lrcsb.lakeheadu.ca>, spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Organization: Positive Earth Drivers Club
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Reply-to: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
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Patton Dickson wrote:

> 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?

The axle shafts are shorter on wire wheels but they do fit and work fine under
normal street driving conditions.I have converted 2 to wires from disc by just
swapping out the axles, hubs and rotors.
Never had a problem.
I never raced the wire wheel cars either.
The shafts are about 3/8" shorter but there is still well over an inch inside 
the
diff.

Don't worry about it.


> 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
>
> --
> Patton Dickson                   Dallas, TX
>
> 1967 Austin-Healey Sprite        H AN9 L 69437
> See My Austin-Healey Sprite Page
> http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/1256/page2.html



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