Re: [ihc] Diskologizing

[bearbvd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Greg Hermann)]

At 8:41 AM 5/13/04, Jim Grammer wrote:
>>Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 14:07:03 -0500
>>From: Spencer Cordingley <scord@domain.elided>
>>Subject: Re: [ihc] brake swap?

Surprisingly, there are a LOT of discs out there with the 6 x 7.25" bolt
circle. seems it is still a common bolt pattern for bolting discs to a
flange on the back side of hubs with even larger lug circles !

The Power Wagon guys have SOMETHING out there for putting discs on the
front, at least, of the '58 to '68 W300's--which used 6x 7.25 lugs. I don't
think they are changing the lug pattern to do it.

Greg
>
>>the IH is a 1968 pickup 1200C I believe its a 1/2 ton.
>
>1200 is a '3/4 ton', with a 6 lug wheel bolt pattern. I know of no parts
>that will let you disk swap and retain this bolt pattern. If that's not an
>issue, you need a hub/rotor that can be adapted to your spindle, and a
>bracket to mount a caliper to the axle bosses that currently mount your
>brake backing plates. I've researched hub/rotors off and on for the 1/2 ton
>5 on 4.5" wheel bolt pattern and found nothing that's a bolt on. IH used a
>rather unique combination of inner/outer bearing on both the FA-1 and FA-12
>axles. Given the need to run bearing adapters for both the inner and outer
>bearings, there are quite a few hub/rotors that could be made to work. The
>caliper bracket will likely need to be custom made, a GM car or truck
>caliper is easiest to use. There are a number of companies that will do this
>stuff, CH Topping, Master Power, SSBC, etc. Take a peek in the back of a
>Street Rodder magazine for the selection.
>
>Jim