[Spridgets] Converting TO wire wheels?

[Neil Anderson]

I remember someone asking the question a few years ago "what is the
difference between the disk wheel rear bearing hubs and the wire wheel
ones?"  I think Frank answered that the wire wheel hubs have longer studs.

Can someone verify that?

Neil Anderson
Northern Illinois


On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Bob Spruck <mgmaven at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> On 1/30/2014 12:33 PM, Peter Caldwell wrote:
> > Any source or list of the parts required?   Subject car is a 77.
> >
> > TIA
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> Peter:
>
> I am currently converting my '72 RWA Midget from wire wheels to disc
> wheels. Wire wheels have gotten awfully expensive lately and all of mine
> are out of true due to using a local shop that didn't know how to mount
> and balance tires on WWs. I don't want to have a problem in the future
> with flats, balancing, replacing tires, etc onto wire wheels if I can't
> find anybody local who knows what they are doing. I have a set of
> Minators I used with rain tires on my '67 vintage race car and decided
> to no longer race in the rain, so they became available.
>
> On the front, you will need different hubs and brake discs. The stub
> axles, dust covers and calipers are the same.
>
> On the rear the wire wheel diff assy is 1" narrower than the disc wheel
> diff assy. From the brake backing plates outward, they are the same.
> Even the rear hubs are the same. Of course, you will need different
> axles. The rods that work the hand brake are also different because of
> the shorter diff assy. I have the dimensions of the diff assy and the
> hand brake rods if you need them.
>
> A recent thread I started resulted in recommendations to torque the rear
> hub nuts to 130 lb ft and use red Locktite. Most also recommended not
> using the tab washer but I plan to use one just to give the nut a good
> contact surface on the bearing face (130 lb/ft is a lot of lb/ft) but
> rely on the Locktite instead of bending it over a nut flat. I think
> that's why it came loose on the race car at the last race and broke the
> axle at the flange end.
>
> If you need any parts, I now have a whole set of wire wheel stuff I
> don't need.
>
> Bob Spruck
> Sharpsburg, GA
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