Parts sleuth! (unknown wheel hub)
Posted by dirty_d
Brandon B Professional Moderator Location: NE Ohio Join Date: 09/14/2010 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 83 Rally Car: wabbit season |
Anybody know what this hub might be from at first glance?
I have 8 of these on a machine that we are rebuilding. They have a suspicious 5 bolt pattern. The machine will eventually be a bottle rinser that captures bottles in a set of gripper belts, flips em upside down, shoots water in em' and then uprights them again so mice and dust and poop will theoretically be removed from your bottle before the beer goes in it. Of course the people who originally built this fine piece of machinery put a ridiculous markup on what looks like chevy parts bin bits so i am trying to source them elsewise. Dims and piccys for your edification 
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I explored the 80s gm route and it looks close enough that we can make it work if the hub to mount distance is roughly the same or we can add a spacer. The plate on my hub is rectangular not angled like all the gm stuff though so i'm still on the hunt for a direct fit.
I'm going to a truck equipment / trailer store here in a bit i'll report back! the hubs are in the center of two rotating assemblies (4 on each end) way crazy overkill for what they're doing but we don't want to re-engineer the damn thing and we'd rather not rebuild 8 of these puppies so we're hoping to find a direct replacement. Not to worry they're not in contact with the beer in any way 
EDIT: looked up the citation on rock auto and holy smokes it looks like a direct match. going to autozone to measure em up to confirm Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/06/2013 11:08AM by dirty_d. |
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And they probably paid $20 a piece for 1000 of them back in 1987.
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