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Daniel1312@aol.com wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> My Huffaker stub axle arrived today. This is a competition stub axle, (I
> think you guys and gals call them spindles) which is standard stub axle with
> the axle pin removed and a new quality (4130?) steel pin pressed and welded
> in place of it. It wasn't exactly cheap but I only have one life and one car
> and the one on the car is old. How likely is a standard one that is 30 years
> old, to break? I have no idea even if you do use the spacer, but when you
> have experienced lateral gee force at just over a 100mph in a road going
> Sprite you tend to think about these things from time to time, along with an
> image of the chisel marks (stress risers) from the last time the hub was
> removed.
>
> The quality of the job looks to be excellent and I just need to get some ARP
> bolts for the disc to hub spacer and hub, a countersink for the lockwiring
> holes I driled in the AN bolts, a reamer, and not least some good weather
> before I can go ahead to fit it.
>
> Not least special thanks to Paul A for sorting me out a core (and an address
> so I could buy a Tuck Jones bolt drilling jig) which I still haven't paid him
> for (I do keep reminding him) though if anyone wants an aluminium alloy MG
> Metro single 1.75 carb manifold for what I owe Paul let me know (I think this
> works out to about the going rate).
>
> AND in case anyone is wondering why I went to Huffaker it is because I don't
> think Don Racine at MM is my pal anymore (Speak to me Don) and the WC plain
> simply never replied to my e-mail.
>
> For the passenger side I have what is probably the last ever NOS spindle and
> I will gladly sell it for the price of another Huffaker item.
>
> Daniel1312
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