Help needed on disk swap..presumably from a Granada spindle

$300 for the pair. Considering I can get a complete kit in the $500 range that has everything new cast, I should have gone with that rather than use old parts.

 

Ouch!! :16suspect

 

Granada parts are hard to find here in colorado. There are a lot of guys in town who have contacts at all the junkyards so they're sold out of the back lot. By the time the rest of us get our hands on them, it's never pretty.

 

You need to learn to get out of town, out in the small towns out on the plains,(I know, because I've seen em out there while trucking thru those places) there are tons of old cars sitting in people's yards that will sometimes litterally pay you to haul off. Junkyards are in business to make money. And this is how many get their cars, by towing them out of people's yards, sometimes they get paid to do it, sometimes they offer $100 a car. I've bought many parts cars this way. I've also hit the local small yards that are weed grown, you can make incredible deals like this. I bought 5 sets off one yard that was about to move the crusher in. Paid $75 a set for them and sold em for $150. Had all sold before I picked em up too. There are J'yards a plenty out on the plains like this that are begging for your business.

 

Yeah, I agree with you about getting outside of town. I just retired from the Army a few weeks ago, so I suppose I have a lot more time on my hands than I did before. I just might make a little road trip.

 

$300 is not a super duper rip off. Slightly high....maybe. But if they are already off the car, and all you had to do was pick them up....that is a plus. I think $200 plus shipping is the going rate anymore.

 

It sure has been a while since I was searching these parts out. I bought a '75 Granada just for the spindles for $100 back in 1989. I just realized how long ago that was...:16suspect

On that note, they are being reproduced currently since it is a popular low cost upgrade for Mustangs as well. I saw a special on Ebay a while back, but I don't remember who the seller was.

 

I would have been fine paying $300 had they been the right part. By the time I stripped them down, cleaned them, replaced bearings, turned rotors, rebuilt calipers and THEN found out they were the wrong part I definitely would have bought the kit though. I'll do that on the next disk conversion. There's just no way to really tell from the casting numbers and taking a man's word on it hasn't gotten me real far.

 

If you do, go do drive along US 287. Go down to Springfield, back up to Lamar and Eads. One of those had a neat yard on the east side of the highway, on the north end of town. There were nothing but older cars and trucks in it. Not a big place either, maybe an acre of vehicles, last I saw it, but it's been about 4 years since I last ran that road. But seemed like every town out there had plenty of older stuff cluttering up people's yards.