56 ford brakes

Installed Granada spindles on my 56 ford car, had the bottom ball joint hole redrilled, fits good; however, the stock 56 tie rod ends are slightly larger than the tie rod hole on the granada spindles and the Granada tie rods are too long. Does anyone know of a fix for this? Thanks, Doug

 

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Yeah what he said^^ and
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Hello and welcome from Alabama. Here is a link to a social group on the H.A.M.B. 1952-1955 Fords, those guys there are very helpful. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/group.php?groupid=332

 

Tie rod sleeves have both left and righ hand threads,... Shorten the Granada sleeves on the right hand thread end, so if you need to run a tap thru them, you can. (we all have right hand taps...)

You don't mention exactly how mush the Granada tie rods are "too long",... but you ought to be able to trim them a bit.

4TTRUK

 

I went a different rout than the grenada on my 58 and it seemed to be way better. I got spindles off a 76 lincoln mark 5 and they were a direct bolt on. Im not sure if your front end is the same. The rotors are 11 and 1/2 inch so you have to run 15 inch wheels. I dodged the grenada stuff when i got wind of all the issues with them.