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Re: MGA rear wire/disk wheel hubs

To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: MGA rear wire/disk wheel hubs
From: WSpohn4@aol.com
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 09:54:58 EDT
In a message dated 9/11/02 1:43:38 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
owner-mgs-digest@autox.team.net writes:


> Gordie:
> Hazarding a guess, it is only the stud length.  The hubs were always
> supplied with studs, so there were two part numbers.  The studs can be
> swapped or modified.
> This is the difference on the TR2-4 type hubs too.
> 
> Kelvin.
> 

Wrong guess, amigo.

TRs used splined adaptors that bolt onto the same hubs as steel wheel cars 
used, albeit with shorter studs as you observed.

MGAs use different hubs, which themselves are splined, and not adaptors. To 
change a steel wheel MGA to wires requires the hubs, rear end complete (the 
axle housing is narrower and the shafts a different length) and on drum 
braked cars, also the front drums - they are a 6 bolt fixing, not 4, as I 
recall.

Bill

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