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Hubscrub · 07-30-2011, 10:36 AM

Ok i'm working on my wife's 67 that has been converted to five lug. I'm pretty sure it's the 73 later parts. I noticed this morning as i'm tearing the passenger side down for new ball joints that the caliper has a bolt with a nut on it not the usual caliper bolt. The driver side was correct but the passenger side doesn't have the threads in the spindle for the bolt. So my ? is did they drill the threads out of the spindle or was some like this? I'm starting to get

mad at this truck but it's the people that did the sorry work on it fault. (this isn't the first thing)

Thanks

*stich626* · 07-30-2011, 10:53 AM

calling doctor hack..
someone cross threaded it at one point in it's life, and instead of heli coil they nut and bolt..
if they didn't drill out the threaded hole to large you can heli coil the hole and get a new calp bolt

Hubscrub · 07-30-2011, 01:37 PM

thanks, i will add the brakes on that side was locked up couldn't turn the tire hardly at all. Maybe a result of the caliper not being able to float? I think i have a spare spindle somewhere off a 86 model or will try the helicoil (those are a great invention!)

07-30-2011, 10:36 AM	#1
Hubscrub Cruzin Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: on the road Posts: 2,835	Spindle/brake ? Ok i'm working on my wife's 67 that has been converted to five lug. I'm pretty sure it's the 73 later parts. I noticed this morning as i'm tearing the passenger side down for new ball joints that the caliper has a bolt with a nut on it not the usual caliper bolt. The driver side was correct but the passenger side doesn't have the threads in the spindle for the bolt. So my ? is did they drill the threads out of the spindle or was some like this? I'm starting to get mad at this truck but it's the people that did the sorry work on it fault. (this isn't the first thing) Thanks __________________ Lime Wife's 67https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...wZEMODaS2d94u8 Back to the Fifties 59 https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...NAeStpydfrcj_U Proverbs 3:5,6 "Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything."Charles Kuralt In memory of our first baby daughter, daddy and mommy love you. Danica Grace 6/26/14

07-30-2011, 10:53 AM	#2
stich626 Account Suspended Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: hingham ma Posts: 1,721	Re: Spindle/brake ? calling doctor hack.. someone cross threaded it at one point in it's life, and instead of heli coil they nut and bolt.. if they didn't drill out the threaded hole to large you can heli coil the hole and get a new calp bolt

07-30-2011, 01:37 PM	#3
Hubscrub Cruzin Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: on the road Posts: 2,835	Re: Spindle/brake ? thanks, i will add the brakes on that side was locked up couldn't turn the tire hardly at all. Maybe a result of the caliper not being able to float? I think i have a spare spindle somewhere off a 86 model or will try the helicoil (those are a great invention!) __________________ Lime Wife's 67https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...wZEMODaS2d94u8 Back to the Fifties 59 https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...NAeStpydfrcj_U Proverbs 3:5,6 "Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything."Charles Kuralt In memory of our first baby daughter, daddy and mommy love you. Danica Grace 6/26/14



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