Technical Re-Drilling Ford Axle Lug Pattern?????

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With Tool/Equipment listed above,
Why do you need a Template ?
Lathe & Mill should be No problem
To make your own , But a same time
Both Machines should do with out
Unless No tooling or attachments?

 

Not everyone has a lathe, nor even wants a lathe in their garage. Having a lathe to do such work and calling someone without a lathe a catalog cowboy for questioning one method over another perfectly valid option is... how do I say this nicely... I can't. So I will just say it, it's ****ing stupid. We all get where we are going by different paths. With different capabilities and different abilities. None of them is better than the other. Just different ways to get there. Concrats tonthose with a lathe and the experience to use it. But don't act like you are holier than thou or some how better. That at***ude just divides the hobby.

I'd love to have a lathe, but I can't justify the cost for the amount it would get used. Factor that against the cost to convert the axle to a new pattern. Some of you feel your time is free, but I value my time. So if some ****s around with a pair of axles for a few hours and spends a couple hundred bucks on tools and happens to aleady have a lathe the will have WAY more invested than buying new stronger axles and being done with it for less.

Even if I had a lathe I wouldn't bother with this exercise. And I wouldn't recommend anyone else do that either. It's a waste of time in my opinion.

Some things are worth doing. Some things aren't.

 

I have everything in my shop to correctly accomplish this task.

I would still just buy new axles.

Why?

My time is not free.

 

Will you then bore a new access hole to get to the retainer bolts?

 

tjm73; "But don't act like you are holier than thou or some how better. That at***ude just divides the hobby." Me asking you if your on Roomy's or something is just a stupid as that remark!

 

It was a general statement not pointed at any particular person, but it looks like I hit you in the feels. You might want to unpack those feelings.

Also, what the hell is Roomy's?

 

Ironically mine popped up in my memories from 6 yrs ago. I had bought the jig that does both 5x4.75 and 5x4.5, they both lined up directly in the hole.

 

What did you do then?

 

I sent it back and bought Moser axles in 5x4.75 bolt pattern but with the Ford 1/2 inch lugs. The local machine shops didn't seem to interested in working on hardened axles, plus the cost totals for the jig, machine work and new bearings wasn't much difference than the stronger new axles.

 

PEOPLE THAT DON'T DO THEM CALL THEM MUSHROOMS