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On Friday 24 August 2001 07:52, Simon Glen wrote: > A friend here has a 1963 notchback. He is about to fit the front axle > beam and disc brakes (and 4-stud wheels) from a 1970 fastback which has > no engine and has a rusty body and floorpan. Afte he has done this, he > then faces the problem of what to do about the mis-matching rear 5-stud > open-centred wheel rims. Rather than mess around with changing rear > brake drums, stub-axles, bearings, etc how easy or how hard would it be > for him to make use of the entire 1970 gearbox, torsion bar tubes, > diagonal trailing links, CV-jointed half-shafts, brakes, wheels, etc.?? > He will also need to fabricate the mounts into the body for the rear engine support. He may be able to cannibalize those pieces from the donor car. -- Russ Wolfe russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org