Need help with a judgement call

[SSLance]

That's just the way it is with this car (and many of our cars I believe). Things just need to be loved on every now and again to make thing splay nice together. I'm learning to not get as uptight about it as I used to get, just take it in stride and fix it.

Both axles have a 3/8s" flange,



The difference in length is this spacer between the bearing and end of the axle.



I think I can make it work though, might have to love on some e-brake hardware a bit but shouldn't be a big deal. The big deal is holding the spacer ring in place while setting the retainer ring on the T bolts...

A little bit of this...



on here and a clamp...



and hopefully we are good to go. Glued it last night, will test it out before heading to work this morning. Wish me luck...

[SSLance]

Let it sit overnight clamped...at first it seemed to work very well...



Until it didn't...



When I test fit the retainer over the T bolts, the spacer ring popped loose when it snapped into the axle end.



I've got a couple of different options here now...I can glue it again and hope it stays in place until I get everything lined up and start tightening down the nuts on the T bolts, drawing the spacer ring inside the hole in the caliper bracket...

Or, I can glamp it back together again and put a couple of spot welds on the inside edge of the ring and retainer and hope that holds better...

My last option is to have my friend John build me a new set of retainer plates with the spacer ring built into them...but that ain't happening this weekend.

[dontlifttoshift]

Originally Posted by SSLance

Both axles have a 3/8s" flange,

Lance, what is the distance between the straight edge and the inside of the bearing on the new axle in this picture? That is how much further inboard the axle face and consequently the rotor and wheel will be. I don't think you have the right axles.

[SSLance]

It's about 20 thousands...roughly a 1/8". The only issue might be a little bit of interference between the lug stud heads behind the axle flange and some of the e-brake hardware. I think it'll be alright though. The spacer on the old axles is the difference...I let QP know today, we'll see what they say.

[WSSix]

20 thousandth of an inch is 0.020 which is smaller than the standard overbore of 30 thousandths or 0.030. 1/8th inch is 0.125 which is over 6 times more than 20 thousandths. You're a long way off with the new axels. I'm going to agree with, Donny. I think your axels are wrong. I don't know the differences between what you started with and the tapered bearings as I have only dealt with the tapered bearings. To me, it make no sense that the distance from the outer edge of the flange to the inner edge of the bearing would be different between the two axels. The inner portion of the bearings set against the inside of the housing ends regardless of tapered or not. Clearly, I could be wrong since I'm not familiar with the regular housing ends and bearings.

[dontlifttoshift]

2.500" brake offset -
2.360" brake offset =
0.140" or just over an 1/8"

[SSLance]

I really need to get a set of digital calipers...

[SSLance]

Quick Performance is going to fix the axles for me...

I'm sending the axles back today, they'll press those bearings off, put the spacer on and new bearings to get the brake offset correct...but most importantly they'll also put a full circle spacer ring on the axles before pressing the new bearings on which will make installation a WHOLE lot easier for me.

Kills my weekend plans though...