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RE: [oletrucks] straight axle

To: mgr@mgrcorp.com, oletrucks@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: [oletrucks] straight axle
From: "Brian _" <pkupman57@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 09:43:47 PDT
i got a compleat kit from Pickups Northwest. it came with everything needed 
for the conversion, except new rubber hoses, which have to be longer than 
stock, for the obvious reason that the caliper moves a greater distance with 
the turning of the wheels than the old wheel cylinder did. but, since if 
checked them and bought a few parts, 85 camaro seems to be the year that 
works with what comes in the kit.
as far as bearings go, the kit comes with GM outer bearings that work with 
the race already in the rotor, and the ford inner bearings and new races 
that have to be pressed into the rotors (after you take the GM ones out 
however) and then theres an adapter that slides onto the original spindle 
and that is what the ford bearings rides on.
Brian M
Atwter, CA
'57 Chevy 3200

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