[T3] Front beam is loose

[Mike Fisher]

We had to swap the '69 brakes onto the '72 beam since the '72 were frozen
since it was wrecked/parked in 1982.

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Keith Park <topnotch at nycap.rr.com> wrote:

> The beams will accept anything, you simply swap over the spindles,
> something
> Id do anyway as any brakes on an old beam are probably bad from sitting
> anyway.
>
> Keith
>
>
>
> On 5 Nov 2012 at 18:30, Dennis Stiefel wrote:
>
> > Chris I'm about 3hrs south from you.  I have a front end that just
> > came out of the 72 SB we just parted out.  If you need it I would let
> > you have it if I could get your old one for parts. That parts car had
> > about 77K miles on it.
>
> FYI:
>
> Chris's '71 most likely has the early, smaller disk brake calipers.
> The '72 beam will only accept the late, larger calipers.
>
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> Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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> _______________________________________________
> If he is willing to go to the trouble to take the spindles off then I can
> have my students take the ones off this one.  But that's his call.  Or if
> he
> can get or has the later ones.  As Jim knows he had to cannibalize the ones
> that were on this one to save my calipers.
>
> Dennis
>
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