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rear wilwood brakes issues

63fury500

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Ive got rear wilwood brakes on my 63 fury,its a later model 8 3/4 with mosier axles,any way the wilwood hub doesnt fit all te way over the center of the mosier axles,see in pics when I put the rim and tire on it is spaced outward and doesnt fit over because of the brake hub,is this ok to run?im thinking not,see pics Ive added
last 3 pics show wheel on and the gap it has
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If the rotor is not seated all the way onto the axle flange, or the rim is not seated all the way down to the rotor, it is definately not safe to run that way. Sounds like a call to Wilwood or Mosier is in order, or if you don't get any joy that way, then you may have to machine out the rotor center until it bottoms. Does the rim appear to fit the axle properly with the Wilwood rotor off the car and out of the way??
 
If the rotor is not seated all the way onto the axle flange, or the rim is not seated all the way down to the rotor, it is definately not safe to run that way. Sounds like a call to Wilwood or Mosier is in order, or if you don't get any joy that way, then you may have to machine out the rotor center until it bottoms. Does the rim appear to fit the axle properly with the Wilwood rotor off the car and out of the way??
havenet got that far,thats my next step is to take it apart.I may have the caliper and rear of the rotor shimmed out,need to take it all apart and start over for sure
 
one note doesnt look like much room left for the brake rotor to go in farther,just wondering how far it has to go into the axle center
 
You do notice that in the pictures you have the lug nuts on backwards right? The conical side locates your wheel...
 
Call a good machine shop and ask them to turn your rotor center register to match your axle. I don’t know about Mosier’s axles, on Strange axles, the axles have center register caps that screw into the axles. These can be changed out.
 
one note doesnt look like much room left for the brake rotor to go in farther,just wondering how far it has to go into the axle center

Im wondering if your pictures arent telling the whole story, like maybe theres some other interference. Have you tried pulling the rotor off and flip it over (put on backwards) to see if the rotor will indeed go all the way onto the axle or if theres something else snagging it. Maybe some part numbers of the brake kit and bigger pix (just a little farther away) may help. HTH, Lefty71
 
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