Rear hub adjustment

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I wrote to Wilkinsons last Friday and still nothing.

Call Steve Wilkinson and ask him directly. (562) 634-3434

Looks like another lost night of sleep. Time difference is 16 hours behind.

So call today and he will get it yesterday ... LOL

I have a set of forged steel solid axles by Mark Williams I can measure for you ?

Ron

That would be great Ron, especially if you can measure to three or four decimal places.and give the measurement in mm or thou.

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I wrote to Wilkinsons last Friday and still nothing.

I have always found it better to call Steve directly. I think that he said something about going on a business trip last week.

I know that Steve is out of the country until the end of April. He left on a ten day trip to Italy -- he is hoping to score some good de Tomaso build information on the cars when he is there -- I wish him the best of luck.

Mark

Just to cap off this part of the thread. After finally getting answers from Steve Wilkinson, I wasn't happy with the reply. Even Steve's new axles are still under 40.000mm. I don't understand why you would bother to make a bunch of new axles and not get them made in the right size to allow a 'proper' press fit to the bearings.

Anyway, of all the people I contacted, only one had the right answers so I purchased billet axles from Precision Proformance. They arrived today and look very nice. Bob tells me that they are 40.0127mm and should require 2000lbs of force to press them on. About 0.0008 thou over 40.00mm.

I'll be using a double row inner bearing so will be cutting down my spacer tubes by 12.2mm.