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PostPosted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:18 pm    Post subject: drilling drums to fit disk wheels? Reply with quote

Thinking about trying to fit the later style bay wheels on a 69 bay w/ drums and read in a few places that getting the drums drilled would be a better option than adapters. Wondering where a good place would be to start looking for a machine shop to do this and if it would be a good idea in the first place.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:44 am    Post subject: Re: drilling drums to fit disk wheels? Reply with quote

deerhoof wrote:
Thinking about trying to fit the later style bay wheels on a 69 bay w/ drums and read in a few places that getting the drums drilled would be a better option than adapters. Wondering where a good place would be to start looking for a machine shop to do this and if it would be a good idea in the first place.


If you really want to fit later wheels, why not just swap to the later brake bits. Surely going to be cheaper than having drums re-drilled. But the big question is why - the wide 205 pattern has a much wider range of nice looking wheels than the later 112! Wink
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 7:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had a set of hubs redrilled @ a local machine shop for $120.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mike Fisher wrote:
I had a set of hubs redrilled @ a local machine shop for $120.


Is that shop in eugene?

does it seem like a okay thing to do to the drums?
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think it was Precision Machine in Eugene, but you should be able to get it done in Portland! I'm just driving squarebacks & not really familiar w/buses?
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oregonians.....who'd have thunk. Laughing Ive heard Precision machine does decent work, not sure how up to speed they are on VW's though.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 9:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

oregons it.
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