Reply to "Installing new brake rotors F&R"

On most modern cars the rotors are between the wheel and the hub(outboard side of hub). In the original assembly of our Panteras, the wheel goes against the face of the hub and the rotor is behind the hub. You have to take the hub off and press the studs out to get the rotor off.

The rear wheel bearing thing is a completely different problem. There has been much discussion of it in the past both on this forum and on the deTomaso list. Basicly, the original stub axles are soft and machined slightly undersize so the original bearings tend to rock and fret the axles and then the axles break. The simplest fix is to get aftermarket billet axles from one of the vendors. The material is better and the press fit is better than original.

There are a number of different designs that have been used. I think a couple of people have used double row angular contact bearings, like Volkswagon uses in some of their front wheel drives. I have Dennis Quella's (Pantera Performance Center) tapered wheel bearings.

It has been a couple of years since I had this done. I do not remember all the details of the various revisions. Try searching for rear wheel bearings and see what you find.