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AMXFSTBK390
AMC Addicted Joined: Oct/22/2013 Location: SF Bay Area Status: Offline Points: 3489 |
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The factory swadged the wheel studs which reduced any knurl from the wheel stud protruding beyond the wheel hub. The wheel stud is smaller in diameter than the wheel stud holes in the rotor. AMC evidently never intended service departments to replace the rotor alone. This deduction insinuates the common repair was to replace with a new rotor with new hub already swadged in place as a package from the parts department. Wish we could turn the clock back to 1968 and walk into a AMC parts department and inquire.
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Trader
AMC Addicted Joined: May/15/2018 Location: Ontario Status: Offline Points: 6761 |
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May be a silly question but,
has anyone had success taking a drum brake spindle hub and mating it with a slip on rotor? It may take machining of the outside of the hub and possibly the center also, but then you would have cheaper, easily replaced rotors. I would imagine only a place with a large inventory of brake parts could make this sort of match. |
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david0141
AMC Apprentice Joined: May/21/2018 Location: KC, MO. Status: Offline Points: 60 |
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Well I have finally removed my lug studs. I bought a 13/16' Slugger bit from Amazon. Haven't got my new rotors yet so don't know how everything will go back together.
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nickleone
AMC Addicted Joined: Oct/04/2008 Location: westminster co Status: Offline Points: 1429 |
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Trader,
I removed the drum from a 62 six assembly. Knocked studs out and took the hub to a local NAPA and had it turned down to fit a Previa disc (scarebird conversion). My partner in crime found a dril bit sized for the new studs (don't remember size) and installed them. We used slotted mags with the uni-lug pattern . They are a pain to remove and install but my partner had them in the garage for about 30 years and never used them. He bought them cheap. Nick
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401 71 Gremlin pro rally car sold 390 V8 SX/4 pro rally car sold 1962 Classic SW T5 4 wheel disc brakes |
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