Early Vanagon Spindles with Later Vanagon Rotors

[vwhammer]

I am working on a suspension redo on the front of my 90 Vanagon.
I already have a big brake kit that I built myself that works on either the late or early Vanagon spindles

For this brake swap, I machined the rotors to use as hubs.
For the new suspension setup, I need some new spindles as I have modified my existing spindles.

The main problem now is that I can only find early spindles for sale in all the usual places.

Been a minute since I have looked into any of this but I think I recall there being a difference in the early and late Vanagon wheel bearings and a quick search on Rockauto shows that there are different outer wheel bearings.

I believe the main difference is the ID of the early bearing but the OD is the same.

Can anyone confirm that all I need to do is buy an early outer bearing and I can use my later rotor that I have turned into a hub on the early spindles?
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[crazyvwvanman]

Yes, the outer bearing OD is the same, all years.
The ID got larger early in the 84 model year when PS became available.
Make sure you get a matching pair with regard to manual or PS since the tie rod location differs and thus steering ratio differs.

Mark

[mtnhome]

[vwhammer]

Sweet! I could tolerate a little stop by Outer Range Brewing on my way to pick up some spindles.
I'm in. PM sent
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Pretty normal daily driver build
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=708418&highlight=

4x4 build
https://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/volkswagen-vanagon-4x4-conversion.162055/