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06-04-2015, 10:39 PM
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Brain picking time: late 55 center section in 48 housing?
Yuppers I have a question I can't figure out the answer to.
on an ot project I need to run Huck brakes and drums to be able to run 32 Chevy 18 inch wires. I'll show a photo someday with it on a trailer behind the 48. anyhow somewhere in the back of the brain I remember talk of putting a TF center section in an early axle housing to get open drive. If I can do that it might be simpler than swapping Huck brakes to the 55 housing I have. I know it possibly won't stop as good as with Bendix brakes but this is a 1600 lb car if that when it's finished.
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06-05-2015, 08:29 AM
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Re: Brain picking time: late 55 center section in 48 housing?
Yes, they will interchange.
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06-05-2015, 12:09 PM
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Re: Brain picking time: late 55 center section in 48 housing?
That's what I thought, now I need to come up with a 47/50 rear axle which means a call to my buddy.
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Founding member of the too many projects, too little time and money club. My ongoing truck projects: 48 Chev 3100 that will run a 292 Six. 71 GMC 2500 that is getting a Cad 500 transplant. 77 C 30 dualie, 454, 4 speed with a 10 foot flatbed and hoist. It does the heavy work and hauls the projects around. |
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06-05-2015, 12:36 PM
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Re: Brain picking time: late 55 center section in 48 housing?
That should do it. I put a 55 center section in my 51 axle, and it was a bolt in. Axle shafts were even the same.
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06-05-2015, 03:14 PM
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Re: Brain picking time: late 55 center section in 48 housing?
Thanks. This lets me run the 1932 18 inch wires without spacers that I would need with the Bendix brakes.
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Founding member of the too many projects, too little time and money club. My ongoing truck projects: 48 Chev 3100 that will run a 292 Six. 71 GMC 2500 that is getting a Cad 500 transplant. 77 C 30 dualie, 454, 4 speed with a 10 foot flatbed and hoist. It does the heavy work and hauls the projects around. |
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