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Offline hotrod316

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« on: December 08, 2014, 02:03:39 PM »
Roo you in the shop or at the PRI show Thursday?
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Re: PRI
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2014, 02:12:06 PM »
PRI

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Re: PRI
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2014, 02:30:38 PM »
Ask Strange why they messed with the kingpin angle on their dragster spindles

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Re: PRI
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2014, 06:25:20 PM »
I just bought a new set of STRANGE stilleto spindals what should i for

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« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2014, 06:46:32 PM »
If you are building a new car and going to use a tri-pod style front end, there are no problems
If you are replacing older spindles on an existing axle with the new Strange's, they will have 1* neg camber, EVERY spindle ever made before these were 8* and the new Stranges are 7*

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Re: PRI
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2014, 07:44:13 PM »
If you are building a new car and going to use a tri-pod style front end, there are no problems
If you are replacing older spindles on an existing axle with the new Strange's, they will have 1* neg camber, EVERY spindle ever made before these were 8* and the new Stranges are 7*

Wow, this is too bad, thanks for the heads up Bruce. The 8° Strange spindles will became collectible items. What were they thinking??

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Re: PRI
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2014, 06:13:06 AM »
If you're building a new axle or replacing the spindle bosses as well as the spindles you'll have no problems. 

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« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2014, 08:29:11 AM »
The work to change the spindle bosses is more work than just building a new axle, Anything CAN be done, this is just a heads up to those replacing existing spindles or buying a pre-made axle, that the new Strange units have different dimentions then what has been the industry standard for the last 50 years.

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Re: PRI
« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2014, 10:54:09 AM »


There's been a couple different spindle boss heights as well between a couple of the manufacturers as well. 

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Re: PRI
« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2014, 08:33:30 AM »
Yes there are and M/W wants you to use a bronze thrust washer (comes with) to make up the gap.

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Re: PRI
« Reply #10 on: December 12, 2014, 06:01:59 PM »
I talked to Dimitri from Strange today and he said that when they did their spindles they simply copied the existing units. I just set one of my Strange units up in the lathe chuck and measured the king pin angle relative to the lathe bed and it is 8 degrees. To make sure I was doing it right I put a McKinney spindle up next and it measured the same. Interesting the P-S Machine spindles off my Don Long car measure in at 8.5+ degrees but they had the bushes reamed after they were chromed back in 1969 and that may be where the discrepancy comes from.
I had made a new axle for one of my customers this week and cut the notch to the same angle as I always did for the Stiletto spindles (and more recent Strange units) and the boss fit perfectly with the spindles in my Mark William style fixture.
 
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Re: PRI
« Reply #11 on: December 24, 2014, 09:34:37 AM »
Bad QC at Strange then

SPE  8.5
M/W  8.5
P&S 8.5
OEM Anglia  8.5
Strange   7.5

all measured the same way off the chuck in my lathe with a digital degree readout

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Re: PRI
« Reply #12 on: December 24, 2014, 05:08:26 PM »
Bad QC at Strange then

SPE  8.5
M/W  8.5
P&S 8.5
OEM Anglia  8.5
Strange   7.5

all measured the same way off the chuck in my lathe with a digital degree readout

Bruce... have you called Strange about this??

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« Reply #13 on: December 26, 2014, 12:14:12 PM »
I did, said they would get back to me, that was 3 months ago, but figured I was the only one that brought it up "we sold hundreds of these and no problems", not many shops build front axles like I do anymore.

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Re: PRI
« Reply #14 on: December 27, 2014, 06:19:07 AM »
 not many shops build front axles like I do anymore.

They don't? How do they get made?