rear end 1949 commander

[rickhmn]

Tim 87114
do you know if the offset was different on your rear than mine (a dana 27 from a 62 lark)?
I measured the offset to be within a half inch or so. I do agree that over the length of the diveshaft it's not going to matter anyway. When you had a drieshaft made did you keep the stock flange on the ford rear or switch to a yoke? Thanks for the Jeep conversion tip. I wondered what I was going to do with the e brake.

[tim87114]

I decided against the conversion on my 49. Ya it must be different on the 62 for sure. I have a hard time finding seals outside of buying from the stude suppliers, mine is a spicer model 23 axle.

[tim87114]

Hotrodstude and any other with a pre 50>

Ok I found some very interesting information yesterday. I found out that there is a trailer hub, that will fit right on the 47-49 spindle with the same bearing ID and legth as ours. Scroll down to line item 11 and 12. I just need to measure the seal to confirm, but I'm sure the inner seal is different. The trailer hub shows an ID of 1.5 or 1.6. I think the champion is 1.313" If so either a different seal or a seal spacer could be slipped on the spindle. This would be an easy way to convert to five lug for the front. Does anyone know if the 5 lug drum hub will fit on the 4 lug spindle?
http://www.championtrailers.com/hubs.html#painted_hubs

[Carl Purdy]

Trailer hubs will not take side stress. If you turn a corner and hit a pot hole it will brake. The metal is to porous. It is made for down force only.


7G-Q1 49 2R12 10G-F5 56B-D4 56B-F2

[hotrodstude]

width is not important to apoint.i'm going to use firebird fender flares(1970-1981 f-body)cut out the sheet metal ariund the wheel well.using L60x15 fiberglass wide ovals on the rear on 8x15 chrome reverse so not worried about outter clearance.usely anything i do can be undone if i need to return to stock.the rear fenders bolt on right???thank for the info,i learned a lot.also are the front spindles strong enough to handle 7x15 chrome reverse wheels with g60x15's????so it looks like i need to relocate any axle mounting location???one last thing is it better to mount the axle above or under the leaf springs????

2006,f-150,2x4,v-6,5-speed manual,8ft bed, will post stude info when i get it on the road.

[buddymander]

ST2DE5--can you substantiate that please? I've never heard of it and I load my trailer way over the max. And I do go around corners on occasion.. Hey--my compliments to all of the creative brake and hub interchange going on here--I don't get to see this type of creative thinking very often and it's impressive over the top. Tim--I think the reason stude aframes crack is because of the stresses placed on them by adjusting the trunnions for max positive caster. Ball joints would alleviate this problem. I'm thinking a plate welded to the lower to accommadate a bolt on ball joint because changing the lower is more complicated than the top since the lower has the spring pocket. The top needs to be adjustable, so it has to go. My search is for a spindle with its upper aframe; both ball joints and brakes. As long as it fits the outer tie rod, then the adapted parts will be the lower ball joint and upper aframe mount.

[Carl Purdy]

Your trailer will never have much side force. Your car makes a turn and all the force of the car is leaning to the wheel that turns. A trailer basically slides side ways when a turn not much side force. I have machined both. The trailer hub just makes dust when machining and the car hub will make small chips much harder. I just wouldn't want some bodys Studebaker having a wreck and maybe a serious accident.


7G-Q1 49 2R12 10G-F5 56B-D4 56B-F2

[tim87114]

buddy,
Good point on the A-frame. Just to be sure we are on the same page. I have the planar suspension. Are you thinking of keeping that? I don't think it would be that hard to fab up Tubular lower a-arms then remove the Leaf pocket and weld it onto the tubular arm. At the rear of the arm I think the cross shaft is what would be complicated, although the cost of just those parts isn't really that expensive in the long hall. So keeping the stock cross shaft and parts with a new arm would be easy to design in. I also agree the upper isn't really an issue.

I just finished swapping out my frame this weekend so I'm getting started back up on the car.

ST2De5, That is good information as I wasn't aware that a trailer hub may contain different material. Definately something to look into before going off and doing.

[1962larksedan]

quote:Originally posted by buddymander

I've been wondering which disc brake rotor will bolt on to the studebaker spindle. I was thinking about designing a kit to adapt ball joints to the studebaker lower aframe and changing the upper to something adjustable to get to ball joints plus disc brakes in one fell swoop.

Does't Phantom of somebody similar sell a bolt on set of upper/lower control arms with balljoints that use the stock mtg points on any 1951-85 Stude/Avanti frame?

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[tim87114]

Phantom the interior supplier?