wanted: bolt on rear hub & VW/Audi rear calipers
had the back end apart for the last 6 months while changing over to a 3.14 diff and bolt in shafts, everything back together and start tightening it
all up and the NS/R wheel has loads of play in it! When striping it all down i cough the stub axle on the vice and it ended up with a burr on it,
filed and sanded this away so the bearing would go on but guess i put a flat spot on it and it now has lots play, what makes it even worse is the
fact i had them put on a lathe last week to take the abs teeth and a little bit of material down to the bolt on flanges (for clearance) and im going
to have to pay for that again!
it gets better, i thought i would continue with bolting calipers etc on where possible then i ran into another issue! while i was building the new
rear end i swapped to billet bearing carriers as then came up at a good price, what i didnt realise at the time is that flange the 4 bolts go through
into the upright is thicker, not normally a problem but im using bolt on carrier brackets so carriers now wont fit on, really not happy! put the wheel
back on and went inside to sulk!
as im going to have get weld brackets on i may as well change to the Golf calipers that seem quite popular as rear calipers were on my list to sort at
some point.
so in short after sierra rear NS stub and a set of the golf callipers, beer tokens waiting!
hopefully i will get it back on the road while the weather is still good.
Edit: Scap that, its not the stub axle tha takes the bearing, its the hub (that takes teh wheel studs) so if anyone has a bold on hab goin ........
ive got some push on ones but the splinnes are different size.
[Edited on 17/4/11 by dan__wright]
FREE THE ROADSTER ONE…!!
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