Where to send 951 spindles modified to fit 1303 struts?

[randyj]

I live in Austin TX. Anyone know where I can send my 86 951 spindles to have the strut hole spacing modified to fit the Topline Maxx struts? I read that Oliver had a jig set up to do this. I was wondering if there is someone here in the U.S. I could send them to.

Thanks,
Randy

[Stuart]

A firm in germany called MBT
( http://www.mbt-engineering.de/engineering/menu_e.htm)
does this conversion. I've send my parts and they dit the job very well. Greetings..........

[MattKab]

I had my local Chartered Precision Engineer have his Coded Welder weld the holes up after reaming the rust out.

The new hole centres were then determined by the relief of the area.

And the stock late '03 stub-axle is the perfect gauge for a one-off hole alignment Jig.

Over a year on, I'm yet to produce ultrasound scanned images of the modified lugs, due to the obvious inconveniance this would cause. I can so I will. At some point. It's only 70 miles away and loss of front wheel alignment for a week or so

In a destructive test, I'm 99%% confident that the strut (any I've seen so far) will suffer a ductile failure, long before the M10 VW Golf bolts shear or my welded/drilled/reamed:silly: '86 944T stub-axles suffer a more brittle fracture, common to welded forgings, or castings for that matter.

Metallurgy and fracture mechanics are MY subject

Matt B.Eng (Hons) Integrated Engineering with Automotive Studies, Sheffield, UK.

Micro and Microm, Warrington, UK

Any competent fab/machine shop that can weld and drill show be able to do it.