as above , is there any eaisily spottable visual differences between a 4x4 and 2wd hub ,

and before you say a drive shaft ,

the car in questions been converted to 2wd ,

just trying to acertain if they used diff hubs or left on the 4x4


thanks beef

 

must have used 2wd unless its been dumie shafted with cut down cv joints

 

4x4 must have a driveshaft or something else to hold the wheel bearing together.

 

whats going on now like beef

 

so if its 4wd its got a dummy shaft haning out of it thats what your saying ???

i was thinking more is the suspension mount different ,


beef

 

it is different mate but easiest way to tell is the back of the hub and the front

if it has a big nut in the middle its 4x4 if it looks like a nut but is around 3" across and nothing in the middle its 2wd

 

just trying to settle an arguement

lol

ish

 

lol that didnt make sense to me jack lol

i kinda know what your saying , but thats hard to put across to a third party

beef

 

On a 2wd the big nut holding the hub faces on, is on the inside face of the hub, and ona 4x4 its on the outer side.

To convert a 4x4 to 2wd people just take the shaft out of the outer cv and leave its body in place to hold the hub together

 

the 4x4 one has a nut holding the shaft in it even if its dummied the 2wd has nothing in the middle and looks like an internal type nut sort of like you would use the worlds biggest allen key to undo it

 

think i know what u mean now boys !!!!

 

2wd = http://i21.ebayimg.com/06/i/001/20/32/9394_2.JPG


4wd = http://i20.ebayimg.com/06/i/001/17/24/b1c7_1.JPG
only with a nut in the middle if it's on a car.

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The easy way is hole size for the strut is larger on 4wd, and the area of the hub at the base of the strut is solid on 4wd whereas it is sculpted away on 2wd, as you look with disc facing flat at you.
tabetha

 

Am I missing a trick? the calipers are a dead giveaway too...IIRC 4x4 calipers wont fit a 2wd hub and vice versa.

Cheers
Dan

 

hence the reason i want to know mate

beef

 

tell me what your doing and i can help

 

glad to help ????

Wtf u trying to do anyhow?

Dan

 

2wd calipers can be used with xr4x4 hubs so not always a dead giveaway
also the hubs are differant where the ball joint goes in
4x4 have a pinch bolt, 2wd has nut on top of ball joint i'm sure

 

if you have no innards to look at:
the 2wd hubs have an M12 thread in the caliper holes
the 4wd ones don't and only take M10 bolts

 

lol not trying to do anything dan mate ,

just speaking to a chap who has some brakes for sale thats all,

the car was converted to 2wd , but he wasnt 100% sure if the front hubs had been swapped ,

on further investigaton it looks like they have

so im having them

beef