VW mk1/2/3 Spindle Adapters... UPGRADE inside! (tm)
Posted by Robert Culbertson
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Looking to get an idea of how much interest there is in these, last time I sold 10-pairs.
Tired of always adjusting the rear wheel bearings on your VW? Rip the wheel off a time or two? Well I've got the solution for you! Adapter plates that will allow you to bolt on mk4 spindles, hubs, and brakes onto the rear beam of any mk1/2/3 US market VW. These parts can be found ANYWHERE in NorthAmerica, so no special ordering Polo parts from Europe. The plates are machined out of 3/4in thick 6061-t6 aluminum, and they set the rear wheel back about 1/4in. Yeah, it changes stuff, get over it. It is up to YOU to decide how you want to get to 4x100 spacing, or if you want to change over to 5x100. I've welded and drilled the hubs for 12mm ARP studs, but you can probably just drill and install 14mm studs (way easier). Each set includes 2 plates (R/L) and all the mounting hardware. You will need the 6 spindle stock spindle bolts though, and sometimes they need to be shortened 3mm or so. Price is $135 a pair, shipped in the US. So, who wants a pair? Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/03/2016 08:40PM by Robert Culbertson. |
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I"ll let Culbertson answer the easy ones..He should be along as soon as he's done looking for my straight pull bellhousing he mislaid a while back. There's a number of ways to re-drill the hubs and one easy way for a guy without a big stable mill would be to make up a bushing the you'll want a lather to make it with (lathe being easier to scare up than a mill) you make a steel bushing that fits a wheel bolt hole on the OD very well, just one. Say its OD is 14,2mm----choose a nice easy ID for the bush, maybe 5/16 or 8mm...maybe be brave and take it to 3/8" Bang the bush into a hole on a wheel and then bolt in a couple of other holes the wheel to the hub. Now drill the pilit---whatever the sleeve ID was...Move the wheel/sleeve progressively around.. You're piloted. Next get off Flea bay a "core drill" which looks like this: 
No tip or point..It only can follow an existing hole...and you used the wheel/sleeve to bang those holes thru nice and square. Chase them thru to size. I am already thinking you'll be going to studs to this is the chance.. Why not go good studs? Google "Bugpack 2.2" studs"...they're 14mm x 1.4 studs with a nice ball nose..super fast starting escpecially when the stud register is down a counterbored hole You use VW bus nuts with them.. (Used these studs on everything I own since sometime last century...since I sat the the "industry standard" on serious rally cars was 14 x 1.5...--why would I think of using anything else?) So you have a Golf or sumpin? What you gonna do with it? John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
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