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Eskamobob1
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 Posted: Wed May 06, 2020 10:21 am Post subject: Wheel hubs (not drums or disks) for BJ beetle front end? |
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Hey Guys,
Does anyone know anywhere that sells pure hubs for for BJ spindles? Im looking to try and fab up a conversion kit for some different front breaks and having ready made spindles instead of having to turn them out of drums/disks myself would make my life quite a bit simpler so I figured I would ask
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owdlvr
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| Posted: Wed May 06, 2020 1:39 pm Post subject: Re: Wheel hubs (not drums or disks) for BJ beetle front end? |
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Not something that you can easily find / buy that I'm aware of (have done various brake conversions on each of my cars). The most common is to modify a 944 front hub. Lanner Engineering does it, not sure how active he still is. I realize that isn't very helpful, but you aren't going to be able to just click an online-catalog item and "buy now".
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slalombuggy
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| Posted: Wed May 06, 2020 2:16 pm Post subject: Re: Wheel hubs (not drums or disks) for BJ beetle front end? |
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Check with buggy shops. I know I can buy rear brake hubs for JAMAR brakes. Maybe they have something for the front brakes, I've never looked but their front brakes have individual hubs also
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Eskamobob1
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| Posted: Wed May 06, 2020 5:21 pm Post subject: Re: Wheel hubs (not drums or disks) for BJ beetle front end? |
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| owdlvr wrote: |
Not something that you can easily find / buy that I'm aware of (have done various brake conversions on each of my cars). The most common is to modify a 944 front hub. Lanner Engineering does it, not sure how active he still is. I realize that isn't very helpful, but you aren't going to be able to just click an online-catalog item and "buy now".
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Unfortunately, as far as I understand, part of modifying the 944 hub is to make custom bearing races. I would have gone this route and just gotten a dozen, but I wasnt able to get it set up. Thats realy the reason I am looking to do this myself tbh.
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Check with buggy shops. I know I can buy rear brake hubs for JAMAR brakes. Maybe they have something for the front brakes, I've never looked but their front brakes have individual hubs also
brad |
Thats a real good shout. Looks like there are actualy quite a few options if you look up buggys instead of just "vw". TYVM for the help
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ashman40
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| Posted: Wed May 06, 2020 6:11 pm Post subject: Re: Wheel hubs (not drums or disks) for BJ beetle front end? |
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Is this what you are looking for?
https://www.dansperformanceparts.com/sand/sand-brakes/front-spindle-hubs.html
4x130mm bolt pattern which fit over BJ spindles. No provisions for brakes. The above link also has wide-5 hubs, not sure they will fit BJ spindles.
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