Thread: Ready for the front axle but have problems.

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Just talked to Speedway and they do not do work on spindles at all. It looks like I'm gonna have to use that axle, spindles and brakes. I won't be able to use my brakes and wheels. Damn. But I guess the spindles for a car and truck are different and it my brakes and wheels would work with car spindles I'd go that way.

they show a part number/description of labor to modify spindles-----

Ask them how long to make you an axle with the correct spindle angles-----they are fabricated axles and all they got to do is change the angles at the end

Originally Posted by rspears

Just to understand, if you have an axle that has (for talking purposes) 1degree inclination and the "normal" spindles for that axle have (for talking purposes) 2degrees of inclination built in you'll then have 3degrees of positive camber (top spread wider than the bottom), right? Now if you "mismatch" the axle & spindles, using spindles that have no inclination (built for an axle with 3degrees of inclination) you're going to have only 1degree of camber. So is it wrong in this case to bend the axle, using a camber gauge, to achieve the desired 2.5 to 3degrees? In my mind it would seem to be OK, but I've been wrong before.

I'll pose my question again, "Is it wrong in this case (above) to bend the axle..."

why would you get an fabricated axle that is the wrong angles and then have it bent??? It is a fabricated axle--have them build you one with the correct angles!!!most of the truck alignment shops won't know anything about the spring back of the tubing used and will have to just wing it and you probably will have some scrap tubing--they are used to 20,000 lb axles not 2500 lb ---

I doubt Speedway would change their jig and fixturing for one axle....

Bear---If you are interested in getting on with this project and go beyond the internet dribble---contact SuperBell Axles --they make the axles that Speedway sells--they are located in Missouri out by Kansas City I think--Another source of info is the guy at Roadsters.com/axles--located in Pheonix
have a happy new year

Also it seems that you are only about 70 miles from Posies springs in Hummelstown, Pa---

Bear,
Pete & Jake's has the SuperBell name now, and like Jerry says they are in a little suburb of KC, Peculiar, MO. Here's their link Pete and Jake's Hot Rod Parts, and if you call them you might ask for Jason. He's taken over the day to day operations from his dad (Jerry Slover), and is a great guy.