adapting VW disc brakes to early Ford spindles ?

zzford · June 18, 2006, 07:49:40 PM

Anyone here ever adapt VW type III disc brakes to early Ford (1947) spindles. Seems that I vaguely recall kits to do this in the late 60's or 70's. Anyone got any info or ideas?

phat46 · June 18, 2006, 08:10:02 PM

My brother did that on his '34 P.U. on an after market tube axle. I don't know what spindles. I'll have to ask him what spindles he used and what he did to adapt the V.W. disks to it.

donsrods · June 18, 2006, 10:32:50 PM

Yeah, this swap was popular at one time. Somewhere in my magazine collection is an article on doing the swap. If no one on here can provide the info, I'll dig through them some night and try to find you the article.

It won't happen real quick, because we are in the process of moving our residence for probably the next 2 weeks or so, but if you can wait I'll be happy to do it for you. I think it is in an old Rod and Custom, so that should narrow it down to about 10,000 magazines.

Don

enjenjo · June 18, 2006, 10:36:40 PM

As I recall, it involved turning the Ford spindles to VW bearing sizes and spacing, and a fabricated caliper adapter.

donsrods · June 18, 2006, 10:49:34 PM

That is my recollection too.

Don

river1 · June 18, 2006, 11:12:27 PM

from http://www.hotrodindex.150m.com/

ROD ACTION OCT75 P64 VW DISCS FOR RODS

later jim

donsrods · June 18, 2006, 11:54:04 PM

Thanks, I have that one somewhere, and like I said, I'll dig it out in a couple of weeks, when we get settled in.

That will speed up the search, though.

Don

river1 · June 19, 2006, 06:17:25 PM

Quote from: "donsrods"That will speed up the search, though.

Don

that's what i figured. my collection doesn't go back that far but before i found that site it would take me hours to find what i knew was there.

later jim

zzford · June 19, 2006, 06:34:18 PM

Thanks guys, I appriciate the help. Fred

phat46 · June 19, 2006, 10:46:09 PM

I finally got ahold of my brother in Alabama tonight. He told me that the V.W. brakes on his '34 are from a kit he bought back in '81 from Superbell Axle co. The kit uses Karman ghia rotors and calipers. Ptobably not much help for what you're doing. He also said he has noted how similar the brakes from a Toyota pickup from the mid to late '70s are to what he has. the toyo rotors are tophat design so he figures a little machining would have them on the hub and he said the calipers look nearly identical to the V.W.'s

zzford · June 20, 2006, 05:32:34 PM

That is exactly what I'm interested in. The Type III and Ghia are interchangable. Thank you.