| normalario |
Wed Jun 09, 2004 5:49 pm |
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| I want to get rid of my front brakes on my baja and use a spindle mount wheel. Do these wheels require special spindles or can I use the stockers? |
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| HomespunKustom |
Thu Jun 10, 2004 8:27 am |
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| i believe they run on a different spindle...but why would you want to eliminate your front brakes? strictly off road use? |
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| UncleBob |
Thu Jun 10, 2004 8:57 am |
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| Stock spindles, bearings go into wheel instead of drum. Not sure if they are available for Ball Joint, I've only seen King-Pin. |
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| HomespunKustom |
Thu Jun 10, 2004 9:51 am |
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| they don't make them for ball joints. ive looked |
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| normalario |
Thu Jun 10, 2004 1:34 pm |
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| I run mostly dunes plus I am registered as an off road vehicle. I have kingpin front end. I guess I will be tearing the front drums off today!!! |
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| HamburgerBrad |
Thu Jun 10, 2004 3:03 pm |
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| out of curiosity, what do you do with a spindle mounted wheel if you get a flat tire? |
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| HomespunKustom |
Thu Jun 10, 2004 4:11 pm |
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| walk |
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| HamburgerBrad |
Thu Jun 10, 2004 6:08 pm |
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| i'll stick with my brakes, thanks.... |
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| normalario |
Tue Jun 29, 2004 8:01 pm |
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| Ok! I have completely rebuilt my front end. I went to put on my brand new douglas wheels and they didn't fit. Bearings were to small. The diameter of the spindle goes from 1.25"/1.245"/1.24"/1". Does this sound like a stock king/link spindle? Also had a hell of a time putting in the link pins/bushings. Didn't fit worth a damn even after freezing the pin and heating the spindle bushings. Is this normal? Please help!!! |
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| HomespunKustom |
Fri Jul 02, 2004 12:02 pm |
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| sounds to me like you got linkpin spindle wheels. What front end setup are your running? stock drums, aftermarket disk brakes?? more info |
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| normalario |
Sun Jul 04, 2004 6:49 pm |
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The front end is a link/king pin. The reason the wheels wouldn't fit is because I have combo spindles which I didn't know. The dougles wheels are metric while the shaft on the spindle is standard. I am still trying to make them work but I looks like I will be selling them and machining the drums.
Anyone looking for brand new spindle mounts with tires and bearings or want to swap for 5 lug centerlines??? |
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| BFB |
Mon Feb 06, 2017 6:28 pm |
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| if your talking about the dish type aluminum spindle mount wheels, they are not spindle specific and can be used on either kp or bj beams I've swapped them over several times BUT have to use the correct bearings. and there super simple to find, just look in the wheel section of an empi catalog. they even sell an aluminum "hat" which if memory serves me right is so u can use an outer kp bearing on a bj spindle. and o.d. is the same for both sets of bearings.. I think I've seen combo bearings somewhere so might be as simple as swapping out bearings and u can use your spindle mount wheels |
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| weasel_ugs |
Tue Feb 07, 2017 6:26 pm |
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| I would be surprised if he still has the car after 13yrs :) |
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| BFB |
Wed Feb 08, 2017 8:01 pm |
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| huh, we'll what was this doing on the first page then? |
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