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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Beaverton
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How do I install spindle adapter
I am putting a disk brake conversion on my straight axle. The kit came with inner spindle adapters. Instructions say it should slip on. Mine is too tight. I boiled it for a few minutes to heat it up and it still would not go on.
Do any of you have experience getting these things on? I would prefer not to remove the spindle... I was thinking I would bake it in a oven at 300 degrees and try that???? Thanks in advance |
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Hollister Road Co.
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Houston
Posts: 6,134
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Re: How do I install spindle adapter
get a wheel cylinder hone and make it fit.
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Toppenish, WA
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Re: How do I install spindle adapter
Also check that area of the spindle for burrs or other banged up spots such as where a bearing race spun at one time. Over the years some of them get treated pretty rough.
If you have a digital caliper or access to one you can probably figure out where the problem is by measuring the spindle and the adapter.
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Join Date: Oct 2012
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Re: How do I install spindle adapter
Thanks for the input. I did end up putting the adapter in the oven at 350 in a small glass cookie pan for 50 minutes. This was just enough to give me about 15 seconds or so to fit it all the way back in the spindle. I just used kitchen hot pads to pick it up. It still cools off fast enough that you need to push it right up there...but you have a little time.
This worked great. |
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Lawrenceville, Ga
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Re: How do I install spindle adapter
That makes me think of an experience that I had a long time ago. There is a ring on a VW Beetle crank shaft that is an interference fit like that. A very experienced VW mechanic told me to heat it up just hot enough so that a drop of spit on it would sizzle. I did it that way and it worked perfectly.
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