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Bridgetown
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FEB 08, 01:40 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Patrick:
Is the drum parking brake necessarily a bad thing? |
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Well, maybe not. You would need to try to make the cables work somehow, which could be tricky. The real downside imo is the extra unsprung weight having a drum and rotor brake.[This message has been edited by Bridgetown (edited 02-08-2016).]
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4thfiero
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FEB 08, 08:11 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Bridgetown:
This thread is about installing J body (late 90's cavalier etc.) front bearings into the rear of 88 fieros to get a more durable bearing for racing.
I'm hijacking with talk of using modified Subaru STI uprights to again, get better bearings in the rear. |
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Interesting, has anyone tried that?? This upgrade? or is it just a theory at this point??
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revson1
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MAR 09, 12:03 AM
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So I'm building a 88 for Lemons and have begun machining the rear knuckles. What I don't understand is why you need the spacer and where it goes. I know I'm missing something. BTW, great write up in the original post.
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pop
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SEP 17, 05:43 PM
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Are you saying that improving the wheel bearings will prevent hubs from breaking ??
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fierogt28
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DEC 18, 02:51 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by IXSLR8:
Cadillac Rear wheel/hub update to be used on the front of 88's: I decided to look into this. I've been to wrecking yards and the bearings I have found are all aftermarket. I took them apart and the reason you can not use them is that they all have a crush collar compressed around a lip at the end of an unthreaded shaft. You'd have to take a die grinder and cut parts off until the cap can be removed. The collar is on a lip instead of a threaded shaft. Hence the aftermarket unusability as previously stated. However, I did find one new bearing, made in the USA, that had been sitting on a shelf for a long, long time. It has the nut on the end of the shaft with a cotter pin, under the seal cap. The problem is its only ONE and they are all gone.
I eventually did find two US made New Old Stock Green RW402's. These are the specified 513009 bearing hubs made by Green in the USA. They disassemble and have the large castle nut. BUT, they will not work because the spindle is manufactured from the opposite side of the bearing. The spindle is made on the mount to the cadillac side not the hub side. Total bummer.
Additional note: 1984-1985 (non ABS) Corvette front wheel hubs are a direct bolt in for the Cadillac Seville. But I have not taken them apart to see if they have the same bearing dimensions as the rear Cadillac bearing/hubs. They are more readily available but the nonABS ones are hard to find.
Pretty close to a dead end.
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Are the NOS Green RW-405 made in the USA a good bearings?
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fierogt28
88 GT, Loaded, 5-speed.
88 GT, 5-speed. Beechwood interior, All original.
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