The early wire wheel cars (from BN1) started out with four bolt axles all
around, but when the rear axle was changed to hypoid (BN2) the rear axle
went to five bolts. the fronts remained four bolt until the brakes changed
over to discs (BT7). The solid wheel cars were always five bolt.
Bill Lawrence
>From: "Des Gedow" <des_gedow@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: "Des Gedow" <des_gedow@hotmail.com>
>To: healeys@autox.team.net
>Subject: 106 Brake Drums and Axles
>Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:09:30 +0000
>
>Hi,
>Am in the process of rebuilding my BN6 and need some advice re the brakes
>and axles. My car is a wire wheel car, and all parts look original i.e. the
>car has a genuine 27,000 miles
>
>My front stub axles are four stud while the back are five stud. I consulted
>two friends with BN4s, and one has the same setup as on my car while the
>other has five stud all round.
>The BN4 with my setup was a Longbridge car and the other with the five stud
>pattern all round was a Abingdon car.
>I thought that maybe the earlier cars (longbridge) were built using old 104
>stock and when Abingdon production of BN4s commenced, the went to the five
>stud setup.
>What has me confused is my car has the latest build date of all three cars
>and some three months before the above BN4 with the 5 stud setup.
>Any comments opinions would be welcome
>Thanks
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