Hi guys,

I'm after a picture of how a wheel arch mount is attached to the hub, I have turned mine in a million different ways and can;t get my head round it.

I can only assume I need some sort of inch long spacers or something...

a picture would be most helpful if anyone would be kind enough?


Thanks!

if i remember rightly, (and remember i've never built a 7, and had cycle wings) but i'm sure you use the brake caliper bolts, and the top ball joint nut?

I used to have a Westfield SE and the stays were mounted like blakep82 says, but on my ST and lots of other cars I've seen with Cortina hubs the stays are mounted to the three unused dust cover bolt holes with longer bots and spacers. Here's a pic of mine - they are a bit different from the nomal design but fit in the same way
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Ours are totally tubular. They worked out very well and are very stiff. We also machined the flats into the upright around the holes so that the stay could be monuted squarely.





[Edited on 14/3/09 by andylancaster3000]

Thanks humbug, I have exactly that shaped backplate as shown in picture 3, what I dont have is the any spacers or bolts.... like the rest shown in picture 3

you wouldn't have any dims by any chance? or even the bolt size and pitch would be a big help - I could just use washers to mock up the spacers for now, held together with a little tape for ease.

Thanks in advance!

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Originally posted by Humbug
I used to have a Westfield SE and the stays were mounted like blakep82 says, but on my ST and lots of other cars I've seen with Cortina hubs the stays are mounted to the three unused dust cover bolt holes with longer bots and spacers. Here's a pic of mine - they are a bit different from the nomal design but fit in the same way

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I think the bolts are standard M8, but I had to clean out the holes with a tap to get the bolts to go in! The length of the spacers will depend on the offset of your sheels - mine are about 25-30mm.

To fix them in I had:

bolt head
washer
triangle mounting plate
washer
spacer made from steel tubing
washer

thanks humbug - that is a big help.

cheers

Cant explain in words (dam french red )




Hope you can see the bolt (SVA cover yet to fall off) and the nylock, much easier than tubes etc and easily adjustable.

HTH
Nick

I used a washer, and an oversized nut (10mm?) as a spacer. Seemed perfect when fitting....

Like others, I had to make three spacers per side out of 10mm steel tube. Note: in order to get even spacing between stays and tyre sidewall, they were of different lengths.
I bought the tube from my local B&Q.
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another view...
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