[Spridgets] Disc brake conversion

[Peter Caldwell]

If you've driven the car for more than a 1000 miles and you aren't 
dead, it's probably OK.  ;-)

But, if you want to verify what Frank said, undo the top kingpin nut 
and lift the spindle up to feel if it is loose. The drum brake king 
pin's lower diameter is .687" and the disc brake one is .780"

Peter C.
==
At 09:21 AM 1/16/2009, JMFarley50 at aol.com wrote:
>My Bugeye was converted to front disc brakes by a PO.  How can I 
>tell if the if the proper king pin was used?
>
>John
>
>In a message dated 1/15/2009 9:33:38 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
>spritenut at comcast.net writes:
>Michael
>
>What Peter said and buy new rubber brake hoses, don't even think about
>using the ones from the 70 unless you can see a date code on the hose
>and it is 5 years old or less.
>Never ever use rubber brake hoses 10 years old or older. They all have a
>date of manufacture on them, if it has no date, it's
>PRE 1976 and will fail when you need it most during that panic stop.
>Also I have run across disc brake conversions on Bugeyes where the PO
>just put the disc spindles on the drum brake king pin.
>The top of the pin and the top hole in the spindle are the same and it
>looks like it works but the lower end of a disc brake king pin is much
>thicker, if you just drop the later spindle on a Bugeye king pin it will
>work but when (not if) it fails, it will be catastrophic.
>Similar to the failing of a 30 year old rubber brake hose ;)
>
>--
>Frank Clarici
>Toms River, NJ
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