front axle help!
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front axle help!
I went to replace my front wheel bearings on my 67 F100 camper special and couldn't separate the hubs from the drums, so I decided to go to pick&pull and get some hubs to replace mine. The donor truck I first went to was a 67 F100 and only one of the hubs would come off easily, so I went to a 69 F100 and pulled one of it's. The two hubs from pick and pull were the same, so I figured I was well off. I went home and tried to install the new hubs, and found that my truck has a smaller spindle than either of the two donor trucks. The bearings I got for a 67 Ford F100 from Autozone fit the hubs I got from pick and pull, but not my spindle. I was under the impression that 67-72 Ford trucks all had the same spindles, and the suspension on the two donor trucks looked identical to mine (double I-beam). I can only guess that some yahoo changed out the spindles, hubs, etc from a different vehicle or year of F100. What I think I'm going to do is get the spindles off one of the donor vehicles. Has anyone else experienced this before? What gives?
Greg
67 F100 CS 390 cruise-o
Greg
67 F100 CS 390 cruise-o
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front axle help!
[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 02-Mar-01 AT 09:32 PM (EST) by StockMan (moderator)[/font][p]The F100 and F150 use different spindles, to remove just remove the studs and they will separate.
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it turns out that 67-72 is not the match for spindles, hubs, bearings, etc. 65-67 match and 68-72 match. On getting the drums off the hub, I found out that the studs are swedged and that you have to have someone cut off the shoulders on the studs in order to separate the hub from the drum. It makes life a lot easier. I read all the posts on stuck brake drums and nobody mentioned that. I have pictures in my head of people banging on drums all over America for no good reason at all. Is this not common knowledge, or did I just get left out of the loop again?
Greg
67 F100 CS 390 cruise-o
Greg
67 F100 CS 390 cruise-o
