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    Post by Guest Wed Jan 18, 2017 8:24 am

    From what I've found:

    D100 hubs wont work, wrong inner bearing size, too big.
    69 Roadrunner hubs fit perfectly, probably other B-Body hubs will work too.

    Roadrunners also came with disc brakes, so maybe someone can come up with a Roadrunner front disc brake conversion
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    Post by BADBADGER Wed Jan 25, 2017 6:39 am

    Ive been wondering about replacement hubs for my 67 A100. so if the roadrunner hubs fit, will the A 100 bearings fit or will they need to be replaced. Asking this question because I just replaced the bearings but the original hubs have a bit of wear on them.

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    Post by dirtbag69 Sat Apr 08, 2017 1:33 pm

    This is GREAT news and useful information! Thank you for sharing this.

    Also, I found this:

    http://www.streetmusclemag.com/tech-stories/brakes-suspension/killer-kong-project-update-speedway-motors%E2%80%99-speedy-disc-brake-swap/

    "For 1969, the Dodge Charger and its fellow intermediate-sized siblings the Coronet, Super Bee, Road Runner, GTX and Satellite, all were offered with the same front disc brakes as part of a special R/T handling suspension package featuring heavy duty torsion bars, shocks, rear springs and sway bar, in addition to a set of Bendix four-piston calipers grinding a set of two-piece rotor/hub assemblies to a halt.

    While an improvement over the standard front drums, the two-piece rotors were known to warp and distort during hard braking, causing severe brake pulsing and vibration. By the mid-1970s, Chrysler replaced the two-piece rotors with front unicast rotors (one-piece hub and rotor) which improved the warping concern, but encountered heat dissipation issues, leading to the 11.75-inch unicast police rotors with cast-in reinforcing ribs in 1976.

    The rotors weren’t the only the parts to get an improvement during the 1970s. While modern technology would make the multi-piston caliper the choice of performance brakes, the original Bendix four-piston calipers from the ’66-to-’69 cars were replaced by a single-piston Kelsey-Hayes pin-type on the 1970 models."
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    Post by Keith D Sun Apr 09, 2017 10:40 am

    BillWelter wrote:From what I've found:

    D100 hubs wont work, wrong inner bearing size, too big.
    69 Roadrunner hubs fit perfectly, probably other B-Body hubs will work too.

    Roadrunners also came with disc brakes, so maybe someone can come up with a Roadrunner front disc brake conversion

    Just to clarify, what you are referring to as a hub is also known as a spindle, correct?
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    Post by busman78 Sun Apr 09, 2017 2:14 pm

    The bearings for the "B" body Plymouth are the same as the vans, A2 & A6 set, as for direct fit you would need the inner to outer bearing spacing to verify the B hubs will interchange. That also includes some early E bodies, plus the Dodge & Chrysler offerings.

    Has to be talking about hubs for the spindles can not interchange, 62-74 B bodies were ball joint front suspension our vans had king pin.

    Not sure which would be the harder to find hubs, vans or B body, then again there are a lot of vehicles that used the A2/A6 bearing combo, not just Chrysler products.

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