I just looked at a set of trailing arms at VBP and noticed that you have to loosen the nut and put your old axle flange on.

Is it possible to get this all set up with new axle flanges mounted?

Or do the axle flange fit the axle for the car so it is a "must do so"?

 

Mine are going to these guys. Seems to be the most recommended here on the forum.
I pondered doing my own. But with the total parts cost and frustration. I decided $345 per unit sounds pretty good.

http://www.bairs.com/suspension.asp

 

Looks like these on the middle on the side number 5353LS have it all complete.It says it has the inner flange(suppose that is the part i mean)
http://www.bairs.com/ seach for part 5353LS

 

doing it that way would make it near impossible to install new u-joints into each axle. Send the axles and the TAs to Bairs, Bairs will send you a shipping box for each TA and the axle will fit in it as well. I tried to press out my original u-joints and they would not budge, and extreme care must be taken if you did try it yourself to not bend the u-joint axle flange. You'd need to fabricate and and mount a 1/2" (12mm) thick steel plate to the flange to prevent it bending.

I did the whole job of removals and shipping to Bairs over this past winter. Their turn around time was about 2 weeks. Mine has been a bit longer.

DonO

 

It's been a while since I did my trailing arms but I don't think the axle flange half on the trailing arm has anything to do with the u-joints other than to provide a place to bolt up the half shafts to (which have the u-joints on them). It's what the four bolts on the half shaft flange bolt in to and have the french locks holding them.

Truth is taking that single large nut off isn't that hard (especially if you have a tire mounted with weight on it) after you have installed the trailing arms. If I remember this right there is a dust cover that easily press fits into the inner portion of the axle flange that you might want to change but that's it.

Geek

 

I replaced both of my trailing arms this past winter and used VanSteel. I was very satisfied with them, my only contention was I didn't get my full core charge back because they told me BOTH my spindles were not within their specs. Who's to really know, but the core charge for each spindle was about $165.00. I trust their judgement and their reputation. The axle flange was no big deal, the hardest part was torgueing the nut to 100 ft. pds. while the trailing arm was lying loose on the work bench.

 

The flange does not contain the U-joint. If you remove the spindle nut, you can easily slide your own flange on. Just dont nick the seal and lube the flange with some grease. There will also be a steel dust shield that is easy to remove. You can have the shop that rebuilds them put a new axle flange on with no problem. I would recommend you just send your cores to Duntov motors and have them rebuild them. They do excellent work and are cheaper than others.

$165 for spindle cores is steep. A brand new spindle from Duntov is around $125, less if they install it during the rebuild. I have put their spindles on arms I have rebuilt and they are excellent.

I wouldn't even consider using old spindles in a disk brake car. Drum brakes, only if they are in excellent condition.

Boyan

 

I put brand new spindles on mine, don't skimp there.

 

What i would like to have is everything mounted on the trailing arms. Everything ready to have them to go un the car and fasten the drive shafts,shimming the arms.

 

Call Duntov motors or Bairs, have them ship you boxes, then remove your arms and send them in. When they ship them back to you, simply install them. They both know what to do.

Boyan