Hubs- what I seem to remember

[Terry Rust <trust@domain.elided>]

>I thought the Selectro hubs were another brand made by Husky.  The ones
>I'm thinking of have a case that tapers down to a knob that's about 2" in
>diameter on the end.

I think that Husky/Selectro was assimilated into Dualmatic which is part of
someone else, it may have been selectro/dualmatic/husky, but I think it
ended up with Dualmatic. I'm reasonably sure that the selectro/dualmatics
had a knob that was 3-4" in diameter and sort of covered the whole shebang.
I seem to reemember an earlier set that I want to call dualmatics that had
dual levers that you rotated on each hub to lock/unlock the hub, these were
very early though and fell out of favor as they were more difficult to
operate than the 1/4 turn units. The set described above sound like Cutlas
hubs, Chrome plated, when the long tapered units, with a 2" knurled disc
with a slot through it to operate them. I've had the same set of Cutlas
hubs on my CJ 5 since 74, no, zero, zip , zilch, nada problems with them.
Of course they are no longer made. They used to also make a short version
(I've only seen them on J trucks) that had only the knob and a plate
looking deal that replaced the drive plate on the front end, I GUESS they
would be comperable to the "Internal" hubs used on Fords and Senior Jeeps.
I've not seen Cutlas hubs outside of the mountain states though so they may
be somewhat scarce (I'd better pull the set of the junked J10 at the yard
near here). I've never (Knowingly) seen the Cutlas Automatics, but would
like to find some someday.

too much rambling $.02 worth

Terry  Rust