The other thread was getting too hard to follow. Here's the deal with the status of my PV front disk brake conversion:

I received a lovely (nicely rusted) set of used hubs from Don Thimbolt (1800 guy) today. We started looking at them, and Carlos realized the studs would have to come off (they're mostly bent). Then he started looking at my (old, original) existing drum rotors..then he started thinking maybe they're not really integral, those hubs and rotors--as in one piece. Then he realized he probably made a mistake when he said that I'd have to purchase a new (or used) set of 122/1800s HUBS to mount my new rotors to since he couldn't figure out how to separate the hubs from my old drum rotors--actually, at the time he deduced there was no way to do this, he thought it was all one piece. Then he apologized to me for making me order a set of hubs we probably won't need! (DOH!)

Anyway, to make this long story short, we took one of my old (drum) rotors and proceeded to cut and grind off each stud (they were in great shape, but unfortunately needed to come off to separate the drum rotor from the hub, which I will reuse and place my new disk rotors on--when I get those, hopefully later this week). 4 out of 5 of the studs cut/ground off nicely. The 5th decided to be stubborn, and is soaking in P'Blaster overnight. We will try again tomorrow morning, using a punch and hammer to knock the old ground off stud out.

Obviously we need to make a trip to the car parts store for new studs...I was thinking about going ahead and building up the extra set of hubs I have now with new disk rotors, assembling it all together with the old (rusty) hubs--except clean them up real nice and paint them even--and install w/ new studs. Anybody interested? If so, shoot me an email.

I would post pictures, but for some reason I can't (gallery keeps saying "file needs to be .jpg, .png or .prn format" when I try to post a pic; not sure why since all my photos are jpegs).

more later..