Re: | HELP | G60 caliper bolton to 4ksq

[JShadzi@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/11/99 11:41:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bbell04@ibm.net 
writes:

<< 
 Ooops, here is a MAJOR problem. The struts from an Audi 80/90 have 75mm OD
 bearings and the struts for the 4kq use 68 OD mm bearings (ID are approx. 42
 and 39 mm respectively). This means your 4kq hubs won't work. This also
 means the 80/90 hubs won't work because not only are the axel spines
 different, but the 80/90 uses a bolt rather than a nut on the axel.  Now if
 you are very clever you might realize the rear bearings on a 4kq are 75 mm
 and you might think you could use a set of those up front....Wrong. The
 front and rear axels on a 4kq are different and also have different splines.
 You can go a couple of steps further and solve this problem. Get the front
 hubs, 4 of them, from a 5000 t or tq and an extra set of 4kq rear axles
 (they need to be shortened slightly with these struts) and convert to a 5
 bolt system. you can then use the front rotors from the same car you got the
 G60's (even the hat size is correct) and drill you rear rotors to work with
 5 bolts.
  >>

    I agree!  This post has led many people astray, And I seriously doubt he 
considered if this would even work.  This is one of the problems with the 
Qlist, often many of us give advice, and adamantly defend it, without any 
experience to back it up!
Javad Shadzi
88 80Q