History Franklin quick change and EDGO calipers

I am looking at a quick change for sale, and I noticed the rear calipers, never seen these before, who made these, are they rare, the guy wants 1500 for the setup, you think that's high?

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I have never heard of EDCO other than bicycle brakes, may or may not have anything to do with each other. 1500 might be a little high for a rearend that you haven't seen inside of. My guess is it has a spool, but if it has a nice new Winters Trac or something, it might be worth it.

Around here, unknown quickies go for about 500 bucks. Most guys ditch the spool for a differential, press in new 9 inch Ford axle tubes/brakes and get custom length axles. Not hard to do, there are lots of threads if you hit the search*****on. Or, you could toss it under your car as is. It has been done before.

Good luck, -Abone.

 

Agreed; that's a bit much for an unknown FRANKLAND quickchange.

 

I have had some old midget and sprint stuff over the years and I did have some EDCO brake calipers that were of the size a sprint car would use. They did not look the same as those you have in the picture. I****ume they were older than yours.

 

1500 did sound steep, and it actually was underwater for 3 days from the flooding we had last year, also it proably does have a spool most did, was just really curious about brake calipers

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Too much for a Frankland but I would bet with the "fat" side bells that there is a diff in there, whether a gold track, true track or whatever. Those Edcos are actually decent calipers and worth a few bucks.

Steve

 

I wouldn't pay that unless I had been inside of it - and knew what I was looking at. Also, by the time you put a differential in it, change the axle tubes, have new axles made and all that jazz, you'll have another $1500 in it. So, unless you plan to run it "as-is" and everything is what you want on the inside, you'll not be saving money in the end. If it was me, I'd spend about $750 max on it -- and plan to spend at least $1500 more. And - depending on what you end up doing with brakes (not knowing if you can even use those - or rebuild them), you might be looking at another $2000+ on top of your purchase. Good luck!

 

I don't buy ANY QCs anymore unless I can look inside.
Take the left side bell off and pull the ring gear/differential/spool****embly.
A Frankland with a tru-trac style differential, good R&P and unbroken nose bearing support might bring $1200 but probably not. Almost every race used pinion gear is junk.
The underwater special, as is, is worth about $300 if you can't look inside.