hub upgrade

[Hotrodder]

Wilwood has a front disc brake kit that includes a 4 lug hub for the Tiger. You can weld up the 4 hole pattern in the stock hubs and drill a 4.5 x 5 Ford car pattern and then you have to figure out a custom brake rotor and caliper. I think you misunderstand the helpful guys here. The 9" is a little big and if you can find a Postal Jeep or 72-75 CJ5 Dana 44 rear it will be an easier conversion.

thanks

 

[Hotrodder]

This guy used a trailer hub with spacer tube inside the bearing in his TR7 brake conersion.

TR7 Front Brake Project Wilwood Calipers, 10.9" & 11.3" Vented Discs 5 Lug Swap : TR7 & TR8 Forum : The Triumph Experience

I thought I would share my TR7 front brake swap project with the forum. I wanted to swap to bigger vented disc rotors as well as change the lug pattern to 5 lug on 4.5" bolt pattern. I will be swapping out the rear axle soon for a narrowed Ford 8.8" rear with disc brakes from a Ford Exp

www.triumphexp.com

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[Hotrodder]

Found on another site!

Nice!

 

[Hotrodder]

Barry, I have a picture of it on my computer somewhere. I think it was the Grassroots motorsport car. I linked the pic to Fonz when he was working on his. The early Ranger with 10.5 rotor/hub was used with a bearing spacer is what the owner told me. I know you would have to make a caliper adapter. I'll look for the pic.

sweet

 

[Hotrodder]

Do you have links to those references? It might be possible to cobble up some way to put a Ranger hub/rotor on a Series Alpine stub axle, but I believe that all of the Ranger hub/rotors are too large in both diameter and thickness to work with factory Series Alpine calipers.

Sweet!!

 

[Hotrodder]

sweet

I would like to see it please...

 

[Barry]

This thread started with the assumption that an Alger / Frankenpine with a SBF engine needs a Ford 9" rear axle "so don't bust it up" and then went completely off the rails.

To paraphrase the late Jerry Lee Lewis, "There's a whole lot of assuming and not much listening going on."