Hi frank,
I'm very glad to hear this as I was just getting to that point. The PO
put wires on the frogeye. I noticed from my parts that the are in fact
about a 1/2" shorter. Thanks you saved me a lot of work.
Rick
Frank Clarici wrote:
>
> 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
>
> --
> Frank Clarici
> Too many Sprites
> http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut
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