[Spridgets] A spridget question about rear hubs

[Bob Spruck]

I should be able to measure a hub from a wire wheel car and a disc wheel 
car. One thing I do know is that the wheel studs are different. I 
believe the WW studs are shorter to accommodate the taper on the front 
side of the axle that meshes with the taper on the backside of the WW. I 
can measure them too.

I wonder what happens if you use a disc wheel hub with short studs to 
mount wire wheels? Does it shorten the overall width such that there is 
tire/body interference?

I also assume that since Bugeyes never came from the factory with wire 
wheels (only disc wheels) that the diff housing is as wide as the later 
model's disc wheel car. That would mean that later model WW axles would 
be shorter and would engage the splines in the diff gears a half inch 
less on each side. Anybody have any experience with later model WW axles 
being used on a Bugeye diff assembly? My conversion plan is to use later 
WW axles with the disc wheel hubs but with the shorter wheel studs. Has 
anybody ever done this?

Bob

On 1/25/2018 11:32 PM, Trevor Jessie via Spridgets wrote:
>
> Ok... but why do the HUBS have different part numbers?
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 11:26 PM Bob Kitterer <bkitterer at me.com 
> <mailto:bkitterer at me.com>> wrote:
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>     The diff housing is one inch narrower for the wire wheels. This
>     keeps the rear tread the same as foe disk wheels.
>
>     Bob  Kitterer
>
>     1960 Austin Healey Sprite (Mk IV in disguise)
>     1966 Austin Healey Sprite Mk III (Trevor) - still in boxes
>     2013 Miata
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>     On Jan 25, 2018, at 7:36 PM, Trevor Jessie via Spridgets
>     <spridgets at autox.team.net <mailto:spridgets at autox.team.net>> wrote:
>
>>     on the MGexperience, someone pointed out to me that there are
>>     different part numbers for rear hubs on a wire wheel car than a
>>     disc wheel car.  What is the difference?  I thought only the
>>     housings were different.
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     Trevor
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