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Well, it's not the first forum I've seen where some folks want as little said as possible.

By the way, how much do I absorb?
While I'm doing this new listening, what should I think about statements that a stock /6 will never need disc brakes? (Oh darn, I must have already listened to that.) Oops, now I've gotta go confess for sarcasm. AND for being poetic and incorrigible.

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Usually all you have to do to get a different answer is ask a different person. Then the first person gets really PO'd, because his answer was supposed to be the last word. Last words aren't all they're made out to be.

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Forget the new rims........

Just go here

http://www.coker.com/store/customer/sea ... 8&x=10&y=1

and get original size (and type) 13"ers..........

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64 Valiant 225 / 904 / 42:1 manual steering / 9" drum brakes

OK, you want to show everybody how much better you are than me?

It seems it's always the genius that doesn't get it. Like I said, not everybody has a photographic memory like you seem to have. Like I didn't say, not everybody has the particular kind of brain organization that pulls lots of details together into one solution - no matter how many times they have read a thousand bits of data or searched the archive or kept current on the dailies. But you never seem to get that, because it's easy for you.

So I'm one real SOB for trying to pull my bits and pieces together with the help those who have perspective I don't have and have built solutions I haven't built. How utterly brazen of me!

As for 70% of your posts, is seems to me like you use them less for solutions than for proving people wrong and putting people down - shredding them if possible.

Rubber meets the road? Well it ____ well better be YOUR road, right? Your way or the highway, right? Think like you or don't think at all, right?

There's always at least one. And it's really too bad they are usually smart enough people just put up with them.

E.O.R.

Just remember before you buys any rims off of eBay to confirm that the boilt pattern is five on four. THose slotted mags and Cagars came in all bolt patterns, and you will have to get teh seller to confirm what the pattern on the rims is.

Good luck!

To the best of my knowledge, the "unilug" wheels never came in a 5 on 4 inch bolt patternl.

Please gentlemen, can we get this topic back on track, and dispense with the personal attacks. Remember it is a lot easier to type nothing, then a rant.

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65 Valiant 100 2dr post 170 turbo
66 Valiant Signet 170 nitrous
64 Valiant Signet
64 Valiant 4dr 170
64 Valiant 4dr 225

Ross,

Do you have the original 7 1/4" axle? I once tried to have one of those redrilled - the machine shop refused to do this, claiming the flange diameter was so small they wouldn't have enough metal left on the outside of a set of holes on a 4 1/2" diameter. I would avoid redrilling.

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'66 Dart - turbocharged 225
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I am not sure how much you absorb. But you have been on here more than a month and still seem to have trouble with using the search function
before you ask a simple question.
People make the point, and a valid one that drum brakes are adequate, if not superior to discs in many situations. But if you ever drive in the rain, or ever might go up a mountain and want to come back down again, than disc brakes seem to be the ticket.

So again, you can spend 200-500 on spacers, redrilling, or custom wheels now. Or spend the money on disc brakes and a rear axle with 5 on 4.5" bolt pattern and be done.

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Not really, Ross, no.

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

Got it. At first I thought that Unilug auction was 5 on 4, but it turned out to be a 4" backset, not a 4" circle.

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No offense intended AT ALL, but this is exactly what confuses the heck out of me and exactly why I come back asking the repeated questions so thoroughly despised by those who already know everything. (Yes, I'm getting pretty impatient with the god-complexes in our midst, which complexes and their related intolerant attitudes help absolutely _no one_.)

I see conflicting statements - not all that surprising. I go out on the internet trying to find clarifying information. . . And I've actually seen statements here that people should not get their information any place but here. For what it's worth, I chalk that up to misguidedness, not arrogance - as a rule.

As for comments that are seemingly "not helpful," believe it or not my comments are all intended to be helpful. Case in point:

Us horrible newbies who ask questions instead of searching (actually we _DO_ in fact search until we're blue in the face), don't necessarily know the proper words to search for to find what we need - unlike folks who've known and remembered these words for decades - and if we do remember a word, getting even one letter wrong destroys the effectiveness of the search.

Again, I do NOT want this to sound writtten as a put-down aimed at you. You always seem to sound like a voice of reason and I certainly don't want to class you with the smug. It's just that there those of us who work our butts off trying to get puzzling problems solved and we aren't the lazy bums certain others seem to delight in describing us as.

Hopefully saying this is useful to others like us. And it apparently is, because I have received PMs thanking me for asking the right questions and saying the right things. (Yes, encouragement instead of know-it-all put-downs. Imagine that coming from non-geniuses!)

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I once saw a set of unilugs that was for 5 on 4 to 5 on 4.5. I have only seen one, but they are out there. My point is simply that there are options. I have seen both slotted mags and Cragar SS rims in the small bolt pattern.

Yes, I have the original 7 1/4".

Maybe all this is why this particular outfit does the drill and tap routine (leaving more steel) instead of a press fit, to get that other 1/4"?

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Have they taken a look at your axle, or not? If they have done this job with a similar axle, you might be safe. But they may simply have a standard price for this job and determine when you bring the axle in if the job is actually possible.

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'66 Dart - turbocharged 225
My blog - Mad Scientist Matt's Lair