Yearone Rally’s 17 inch on 69 Valiant- help

408STRKR said

Mill the front wheel hub? Is that safe based on torque procedures and stress from weight etc?
That article I’ve read, I contacted the Geoff guy in it and he advised it’s probably the Ssbc brake conversion to disc which caused the positive offset for me. He advised to try an E body spindle as the Ssbc kit provides a caliper mounting spacer bracket that bolts to the drum brake spindle. He said that will save me 1/4 to 1/2 inch.
Now will the ssbc caliper bolt to an E or E body disc brake spindle?

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Milling the hub may be perfectly safe, but it depends entirely on how thick the mounting surface is. I’ve seen wheels you could take a 1/2” off, and I’ve seen wheels I wouldn’t take anything off of. It also depends on the material, a forged wheel can be thinner than a cast wheel, and even high quality cast wheel can be thinner than a cheap cast wheel.

I seriously doubt the E body spindles will do anything like what you’re suggesting. E-body disk spindles are basically the same as FMJ or 73+ disk spindles with regard to track width, which is much wider than the drum spindle track width. And they use a different wheel bearing than the drum spindles you have. E-body drum spindles I’d have to look more into, but I doubt you’ll save much, and the bearings are likely different. Even then, a caliper mounting spacer doesn’t change the track width, just the caliper clearance.