Very simple.
You can pick up a complete wire wheel banjo (the rear axle housing)
and swap it all over pretty painlessly.
You also have to change the front hubs.
(that's it!)
Changing the rear axle housing may be as simple as disconnecting
drive shaft, brake lines, spring u-bolts, drop straps, handbrake
cable pin (if you have a *complete* housing with diff, good brakes,
handbrake rods, seals and bearings). The minimum you need is
the bare housing itself, halfshafts with good splines, and a handfull
of nuts and bolts. You can then swap over the other stuff from
your existing setup.
Don't be tempted to just use wire wheel half shafts in the steel wheel
banjo. The amount of engagement between the half shaft splines and the
diff is reduced too much.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From "Joseph Burruso" <jburruso at earthlink.net>
To: "Spridget List" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 8:04 AM
Subject: Slow Learner/wire wheels x-mac-creator="4D4F5353"
> I asked this question in a slightly different form abut a bugeye. How
> difficult is it and what is the process of converting a steel wheeled
> sprite or Midget to wire wheels? I have a chance to buy a 1969 Midget
> that is to my liking in every way except that it does not have wire
> wheels.
>
> Joe Burruso
> La Crescenta, CA
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