mk1/2 chassis

[tb2]

will there be any problems fitting a rear twin wheel axle to a single wheel chassis thanks for any help

[Luke]

yes mate the twin is narrower on the springs!!

[madmark]

luke i am shure you could answer that one!

[Luke]

luke i am shure you could answer that one!

yes mate bin there tried that!!!
the way i did it was to use a single wheel 6 stud axle and fit twin wheels to it- just fits but its not a strait forward job and there are a few little problems with it!!

[24vMk2]

yes mate the twin is narrower on the springs!!

I'm going the other way (twin to single)

What I was told to do, was cut to spring mountings off, turn them around, move them across and mount them back on the axle.

My mate has done this before to his van, he's never had a problem.

[carcrazysi]

will let you know how i get on. i'll be doing this conversion, twin wheel axle to single wheel van, after xmas.

[Gunslinger]

ok .... i'll bite .... why do this ?

[24vMk2]

ok .... i'll bite .... why do this ?

For me, quite simple, can't fit my alloys on to the twin wheel axle, as my 'bus isn't carrying that much weight, I don't need TW

[FredTransit]

Yeah, I was wondering why too. At leat there were single wheel LWB as an option, if you can find one of those, shouldn't the axle be a straight swap?

[Luke]

twin to single has got to be easier than single to twin!!
unless you cheat like i did!!

[Gunslinger]

i think fred is right, the floor sections and inner arch extensions + the outer arches were all seperate panels on the van, if you look at your floor you'll see what i mean, and ford just fitted whicheve panels were needed as it rolled down the production line (bloody floor looks like a jigsaw puzzle becasue of this) but the chassis etc were common parts, so should be easy enough to interchange axles (thats lwb related info not sure about swb)