Re: Early American question

[adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)]

" From: russ hathaway <russh97309@xxxxxxxxx>
" 
" Got done talking to a guy in So Cal with a 54
" American. As he had just waken me up I was a little
" groggy but the question was in adapting discs/late
" drums onto his American.
" He stated that the car has 4 lug wheels, my first
" question; I thought they were 5 lug but as he has the
" car in his garage I wasn't going to push the argument.
" Were they indeed 4 lug or did someone monkey with the
" car prior to him getting the car. What year did they
" switch to 5.

not an expert on '50s ramblers, but i vaguely recall reading/hearing
something like this.  also that nashes had lh thd lugs on one side
just like mopars did until the mid '70s.

" Next ques; The stock master cyl would be a single
" resevior, what would be a good choice to use for disc
" brakes considering the space constraints.

he obviously should go dual reservoir for safety, but beyond that i
don't know.  i don't know if disks -require- dual reservoirs but i've
never heard of a setup that wasn't.

" Last ques; is the spindle the same bolt pattern as the
" later years, 1964 and up?

iirc '58-'63 americans also have 4-bolt spindles and 5-lug wheels, and
they're the same chassis so at the least he should be able to raid a
junkyard one for suspension parts.  and if he converts the front to
5-lug disks he'll probably want a 5-lug rear too.

a non-disk possibility would be 10" ambo / v8 front drums, which he
can probably get for free from some amx guy converting to disk, and
10" rear drums from an '80-ish concord wagon or 258 amx.
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