Wil,
Not complicated, just expensive! In addition to buying the wheels, all
four hubs are replaced with wire wheel hubs.
Gerry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Zehring [SMTP:zehrinwa@UMDNJ.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, August 06, 1998 9:12 AM
> To: morgans@autox.team.net
> Subject: disk to wire
>
> Dear all;
>
> A group of local car-guys, in which I am a sometimes reluctant member,
> were
> discussing the hassles of conversion of a disk wheel'd MGB to wires by
> swapping from a rusty parts car that's in the area. It turned out to
> be
> more complicated than I had expected, with issues of the two
> alternative
> rear axles, overdrive or non-overdrive trannys, length of prop-shafts,
> coarse and fine threads, and other minutia. This lead me to wonder
> what
> the story is with our beloved Morgan. Can someone open up a
> discussion of
> this process? Anyone made the switch? Just how absurdly complicated
> would
> it be?
>
> cheers,
> Will Zehring
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