Experience!!! Damn we broke to 50 ton presses trying to get the tubes back
into the diff housing on a 14 bolt!!!!! Any little bit of crooked and you're
screwed!!!.. An easier way is to do it out on the ends.. I've done it this
way on Jeeps and other silly Extreme trucks for quite a few years...
Once i got into LR's it thought the novel approach of bolting the spindles
onto a flange was a great idea!!!!... The reason for the 14 bolt hubs was so
i could use stock 3/4 backing plates and attach the GM disc's to the back of
the 14 bolt hubs PLUS allow room for 35 spline axles... I'll send you a
couple pics but they're big...
What I've done to other recent axles it to make a couple flanges the pilot
into each other of course and bolt together... Make one to fit the tube on
the 60 and the other fits the spindle (that you turned up round in that
lathe) I've been making them so the front face of the "spindle flange" also
has the bolt pattern for the GM backing plate, careful measurement should
provide an exact fit for the brakes... I normally do the "spindle flange"
finish work like the mounting face, pilot and bolt patterns after I've
welded it to the spindle as things can move around allot on something that
small so leave yourself extra stock on the outer flange...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean-Leon Morin" <offroaddesign@softhome.net>
To: <lro@koan.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: [lro] Project Salisburly
>
> > Don't pull the tubes on a D60 !!!! You are asking for big PITA!!!!
>
> Why? Any experience with this?
>
> > Here's a suggestion:
> > Since there is a lathe in the picture make flanges to fit the D60's that
> > match the Rover spindles, cut off the D60 tubes and weld on the
flanges...
> > Now you pretty much have a Salisbury... For $75 or whatever...
>
> Can't do that, then I'd be limited in axleshaft size by the ID of the
> spindle. I want to run 1.5" shafts ultimately and they won't fit through
> the stub axle. Plus, I want to use a standard Dodge hub so I can run 1
piece
> axles that are off the shelf.
>
> Plus if you
> > wanted to you could make the axle housing a little wider...
> > I did something similar making 14 bolt GM spindles to fit my Salisbury
so
> i
> > could slap on an easy set of rear disc brakes....
>
> 8 bolt rear discs? Are you using GM wheels?
>
> J-L
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